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Re: Building a Kickass Portfolio

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Post by unhingingdog »

kickscondor wrote: post #8

I'm always looking for personal sites that are still out there. I love some of the ones she listed. Here are some random ones I found yesterday. http://merkoba.com/ http://angusnicneven.com/ http://danieltemkin.com/ http://joelcalifa.com/ https://jacky.wtf/ https://www.jacobyyoung.com/about http://nik.works/ http://web.archive.org/web/20180501202224/https://shiba.comp... Here are two I found several days ago, but tha…

Here's mine: h12n.nz

Possibly a bit grandiose. Any feedback much appreciated.

Re: Building a Kickass Portfolio

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Post by kickscondor »

throwmenow_0140 wrote: post #129
kickscondor wrote: post #8

I'm always looking for personal sites that are still out there. I love some of the ones she listed. Here are some random ones I found yesterday. http://merkoba.com/ http://angusnicneven.com/ http://danieltemkin.com/ http://joelcalifa.com/ https://jacky.wtf/ https://www.jacobyyoung.com/about http://nik.works/ http://web.archive.org/web/20180501202224/https://shiba.comp... Here are two I found several days ago, but tha…

Great stuff. How did you find those? My favourites: http://alexandrerochet.com http://timroussilhe.com Those are experiences. I'll update my website to be so awesome when I get some time for it (bit difficult while managing a team). My own site, wanted to update it ever since. Not really an eye-catcher, I know. It uses Grav CMS, it's a great CMS (and file-based). https://samuelantonioli.de And the website of my agenc…

I find links by clicking on different Twitter users' links or clicking around on "indieweb" blogs. But today has been amazing - having a chance to look at a variety of designs and blogs shared by their creators.

These designs you linked are more modern than the others that I've seen. It made me realize that there is a lot of nostaglia - either utter minimalism or vaporwave - floating around in personal pages right now - which I do enjoy. But these go in giant page directions. Another good example in this direction is: http://aaf.nyc. It's not a long page, but has a large feeling.

Re: Building a Kickass Portfolio

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Post by kickscondor »

unhingingdog wrote: post #151
kickscondor wrote: post #8

I'm always looking for personal sites that are still out there. I love some of the ones she listed. Here are some random ones I found yesterday. http://merkoba.com/ http://angusnicneven.com/ http://danieltemkin.com/ http://joelcalifa.com/ https://jacky.wtf/ https://www.jacobyyoung.com/about http://nik.works/ http://web.archive.org/web/20180501202224/https://shiba.comp... Here are two I found several days ago, but tha…

Here's mine: h12n.nz Possibly a bit grandiose. Any feedback much appreciated.

That's a nice effect. Are there other pages?

Re: Building a Kickass Portfolio

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Post by kickscondor »

egypturnash wrote: post #49
bbaumgar wrote: post #16

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I'm about 90% through a rework of my personal site, https://www.brentbaum.com/ Would love feedback on what works / doesn't work design-wise.

The lighting thing is pretty cute. But you have completely and totally broken scrolling. (Or at least you have for OSX Safari 11.1.2. Two-finger scrolling on my trackpad does nothing, trying to drag the scrollbar does nothing, space and arrow keys do nothing. Clicking on the links does nothing either.)

Yes, the lightning is nice. I am on Firefox and also cannot scroll. I wonder what's down there.

Re: Building a Kickass Portfolio

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Post by kickscondor »

benjvmin wrote: post #147
kickscondor wrote: post #8

I'm always looking for personal sites that are still out there. I love some of the ones she listed. Here are some random ones I found yesterday. http://merkoba.com/ http://angusnicneven.com/ http://danieltemkin.com/ http://joelcalifa.com/ https://jacky.wtf/ https://www.jacobyyoung.com/about http://nik.works/ http://web.archive.org/web/20180501202224/https://shiba.comp... Here are two I found several days ago, but tha…

Here is mine! https://benjamintaylorportfolio.netlify.com/#/ Built with Vue.js and uses Wordpress REST API as a headless content management system.

Very well organized. And PDFs that go into detail on the design.

Re: Building a Kickass Portfolio

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Post by icebraining »

nikofeyn wrote: post #123
droxey wrote: post #90

Earlier quoted context omitted.

As a programming instructor, I'm always encouraging my students to keep beautiful, up to date portfolios. I appreciate the numerous examples in this thread, and will be sure to pass along the inspiration to my students! Here's mine: https://droxey.com

your patent is an example of what's wrong with the software patent industry. i don't mean to be rude, although you did feature it promo prominently as the first bit of information about you on your resume. i mean, does soundcloud or any of the multitude of video websites that have done this for years have to pay you license fees?

I have to agree; when a comment on the YouTube Google Forums[1] is reasonable prior art, maybe it's not really such a great or original invention.

[1] https://productforums.google.com/forum/#!topic/youtube/uykx9...

Re: Building a Kickass Portfolio

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Post by kickscondor »

droxey wrote: post #90
kickscondor wrote: post #8

I'm always looking for personal sites that are still out there. I love some of the ones she listed. Here are some random ones I found yesterday. http://merkoba.com/ http://angusnicneven.com/ http://danieltemkin.com/ http://joelcalifa.com/ https://jacky.wtf/ https://www.jacobyyoung.com/about http://nik.works/ http://web.archive.org/web/20180501202224/https://shiba.comp... Here are two I found several days ago, but tha…

As a programming instructor, I'm always encouraging my students to keep beautiful, up to date portfolios. I appreciate the numerous examples in this thread, and will be sure to pass along the inspiration to my students! Here's mine: https://droxey.com

The unfolding zine is neat! Some of the other zine links inn these comments should take note. The little pages within a larger HTML page really stirs up the ideas in a "hey dawg I hear you like pages" kind of way.

Re: Building a Kickass Portfolio

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Post by ace_of_spades »

alexpetralia wrote: post #145
andrew_wc_brown wrote: post #143

I always ask people if they looked at website, my code or anything before hiring me and the overwhelming answer is no. I've always had to get things in front of people just get them to see the extent of work. People think you need a portfolio to get hired you don't. I've built over 30 web-apps in the last decade, and I've never bothered to screen cap them. People only care what you can immediately do for them and if…

Bring a color-print out of your projects. This worked wonders for me when I was applying to jobs. For reference, my website is here: https://www.alexpetralia.com . I printed out the first page, then could talk about each project quite tangibly with the print-out in hand. You still need a portfolio, you just also have to SHOW it. It is your job as an applicant, not theirs to research every candidate that comes by.

Very nice portfolio, thank you for sharing!

I do have a somewhat unrelated comment, though. Looking through some of the examples, I have found an analysis of charity „effectiveness“ where effectiveness is defined very simplistically as the amount of money directed to the cause. I just want to highlight that this kind of measure does not tell you much about the real life effectiveness of charities in terms of how much GOOD they actually do because the effectiveness of causes/interventions themselves vary wildly per charity. For example, there is an organization called playpumps international which has likely worsened the life of villagers where they sponsored complicated water pumps that required kids to play on them to produce water compared to simple water pumps that looked less fun but could be used without this effort. Compare this to the Against Malaria Foundation which has consistently shown to be able to save lifes by costeffectively distributing treated bed nets in rural areas of Africa.

For donation recommendations have a look at www.givewell.org or for more general information about the topic, check out www.effectivealtruism.com

If you are totally awesome you could also consider to update your project with references to these websites and if you should use this project in a future pitch shine with great evidence and expertise on the topic ;)

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