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Re: Ask HN: What are the best personal project websites you've seen?

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Post by valarauca1 »

dougk16 wrote: post #32

First the master: http://worrydream.com/ Surprised nobody's posted it yet. Other people are also posting their own, so here's mine: http://www.dougkoellmer.com/ Other job-hunt-specific efforts: http://www.dougkoellmer.com/portfolio/ http://www.dougkoellmer.com/resume/ http://www.dougkoellmer.com/games/ Can't be totally sure but I believe they've gotten me a job or two.

I thought worrydream was very nice and I could see why it was being upvoted.

Then I enabled JS, and it completely breaks scrolling and loads a ton of images :|

Re: Ask HN: What are the best personal project websites you've seen?

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Post by worldsayshi »

wlesieutre wrote: post #97
mdrzn wrote: post #92

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Talking about worrydream.com

Yeah, I'm in Chrome on Windows and a full spin of the scroll wheel moves it down about 5 pixels. Given how much thought he puts into user experience in his projects, that's really weird. I have to scroll with click and drag and sort of "throw" the page upward as if I'm using a touchscreen.

In Swedish there is an expression "The smith's horse and the shoemakers children are worst shod" that comes to mind.

It's kind of when fashion designers wears an ill fitting t-shirt and jeans I guess.

Re: Ask HN: What are the best personal project websites you've seen?

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Post by haar »

dougk16 wrote: post #32

First the master: http://worrydream.com/ Surprised nobody's posted it yet. Other people are also posting their own, so here's mine: http://www.dougkoellmer.com/ Other job-hunt-specific efforts: http://www.dougkoellmer.com/portfolio/ http://www.dougkoellmer.com/resume/ http://www.dougkoellmer.com/games/ Can't be totally sure but I believe they've gotten me a job or two.

http://worrydream.com was a horrible experience for me. Between the extremely slow scroll-hijacking and disabling of my vim-based scroll events it was a nightmare to try to navigate and I gave up without actually viewing any of the projects. Even using my colleagues hyper scroll wheel gave us a brief chuckle before quitting the page entirely.

Re: Ask HN: What are the best personal project websites you've seen?

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Post by StavrosK »

catpolice wrote: post #84
Gigablah wrote: post #23

https://acko.net A jaw-dropping website by Steven Wittens that pushes the boundaries of what your browser can do. Nothing I've seen has ever topped this wizardry. (You should view it on desktop, with WebGL capability.)

If I saw this linked from a resume, I'd throw the resume out. The projects are impressive and I haven't spent enough time with the essays to evaluate their technical merits, but the anti-harassment-policy rant is like a giant, blinking "DO NOT HIRE ME" sign. I wouldn't want this guy anywhere near my team.

Why is that? I only skimmed the post, but it seems to me he's making a rational argument (and even complains about people wanting to shut down discussion in the first paragraph). Isn't our current "I'm not going to touch gender issues with a ten foot pole for fear of being retaliated against" stance regrettable?

Re: Ask HN: What are the best personal project websites you've seen?

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Post by NullCharacter »

chris_7 wrote: post #57

It seems like a lot of these are very promotional - using a lot of superlatives to describe the person, and all of their work/accomplishments. Is this necessary? I feel very uncomfortable doing that sort of thing, it feels cringey I guess.

Totally agree with you. I struggle to write a bio for companies I work for, can't imagine dedicating an entire website just to memorialize myself.

Re: Ask HN: What are the best personal project websites you've seen?

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Post by pen2l »

dougk16 wrote: post #94
pen2l wrote: post #90

Earlier quoted context omitted.

My corporate firewall has your domain name on a shitlist, for the stated reason of distributing viruses and malware. Have you been told this before?

Could you give me any more information? My original site (years and years ago) was a PHP monster that got hacked briefly through a security vulnerability in my hosting provider (wasn't my fault, I swear!), so maybe the corporate firewall just has a long memory?

I'll try to get more info when I get time. I'm not really sure what software my place uses for blocking sites. Here's one message I get: "This page has been blocked by the PaloAlto URL filtering device." -- and then it tells me the site is contained in a "malware" category.

Re: Ask HN: What are the best personal project websites you've seen?

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Post by sbjustin »

sudhakarrayav wrote: post #35

When I did put myself in potential recruiters shoes, I came up with this one page drawing to quickly showcase what I am and what I know http://www.rsudhakar.in/assets/professional-me.jpg It was even helpful to kickstart conversations in meetups / other technical gatherings

Great idea!
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