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Re: Personal Website for Programmers

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Post by abhinuvpitale »

rgoulter wrote: post #12
zapzupnz wrote: post #10

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Petty though it may be, if it's true, if it's sufficiently widespread, then it's a reality with which we must be able to deal.

Judgements like "I'd expect dev to write it themselves" come across as arbitrary. I think there's no shared context wherein interviewers / job-applicants have the same set of assumptions. Especially since "I'd expect a dev to not rewrite everything themselves, and leverage what's already available" is just as reasonable. There's not exactly a specific "right answer" about whether you need a personal website, what it…

It's actually a better thing to have a template to start with and then customise it to reflect what you want it to show.

Re: Personal Website for Programmers

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Post by Skunkleton »

rgoulter wrote: post #8
patientplatypus wrote: post #2

Ummm....shouldn't a programmer make their own? Dumb question I know.

I think people want it to look fancy, rather than just plain: http://motherfuckingwebsite.com/ Most people don't benefit very much from having prettily-designed websites.

motherfuckingwebsite has google analytics. kind of surprising imo.

Re: Personal Website for Programmers

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Post by ChickeNES »

Ragib_Zaman wrote: post #19
rgoulter wrote: post #12

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Judgements like "I'd expect dev to write it themselves" come across as arbitrary. I think there's no shared context wherein interviewers / job-applicants have the same set of assumptions. Especially since "I'd expect a dev to not rewrite everything themselves, and leverage what's already available" is just as reasonable. There's not exactly a specific "right answer" about whether you need a personal website, what it…

> Judgements like "I'd expect dev to write it themselves" come across as arbitrary. I feel like this depends on the type of dev. If you write C code for microcontrollers then who cares, but if you do web dev then using a generic template not authored by you seems like a bad sign, no?

Why would you expect a webdev to do a designer's job?

Re: Personal Website for Programmers

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Post by ChickeNES »

andre-m wrote: post #11
userbinator wrote: post #3

Speaking from the perspective of someone looking to hire: It doesn't make for a good impression if I see anyone other than the original author with the same obviously distinctive style of site showing pretty much a subset of the info I can already see from your GitHub account, except the latter doesn't require JS to view. If I'm looking at someone's personal site, it should look personal --- not "I cloned someone els…

Would you mind sharing what company you're hiring for so that I can actively avoid it?

Agreed! If I were a founder and learned that someone in HR was using such arbitrary judgement, they'd be the one looking for a new job. By their standard they wouldn't hire someone like Fabrice Bellard: https://bellard.org/

Re: Personal Website for Programmers

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Post by rgoulter »

Ragib_Zaman wrote: post #19
rgoulter wrote: post #12

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Judgements like "I'd expect dev to write it themselves" come across as arbitrary. I think there's no shared context wherein interviewers / job-applicants have the same set of assumptions. Especially since "I'd expect a dev to not rewrite everything themselves, and leverage what's already available" is just as reasonable. There's not exactly a specific "right answer" about whether you need a personal website, what it…

> Judgements like "I'd expect dev to write it themselves" come across as arbitrary. I feel like this depends on the type of dev. If you write C code for microcontrollers then who cares, but if you do web dev then using a generic template not authored by you seems like a bad sign, no?

Part of my concern is: judging a resume is fine, since an applicant is explicitly submitting this. But rejecting based on things done for fun and publicly shown seems 'unfair'. (It's 'unfair' since I'll be judged right now for crap I haven't glanced at for 5 years or whatever, and haven't maintained to the best of my professional ability).

But part of why I consider it arbitrary is it's easy to come up with contradictory criteria, each of which might make sense. (-1 for using latest technology on a personal website, since it shows they buy into hype/resume-driven-development. -1 for not using the latest technology, since it shows they don't know the tools of the trade). I think this bleeds from trying to judge someone's professional capabilities as part of a team, from something produced in their spare time.

Re: Personal Website for Programmers

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Post by xwdv »

rgoulter wrote: post #12
zapzupnz wrote: post #10

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Petty though it may be, if it's true, if it's sufficiently widespread, then it's a reality with which we must be able to deal.

Judgements like "I'd expect dev to write it themselves" come across as arbitrary. I think there's no shared context wherein interviewers / job-applicants have the same set of assumptions. Especially since "I'd expect a dev to not rewrite everything themselves, and leverage what's already available" is just as reasonable. There's not exactly a specific "right answer" about whether you need a personal website, what it…

Expecting a dev to reuse code for a personal website is not reasonable.

A personal website is not a software development project. It is not something to use to evaluate a developers technical skills. When you have a real project on the line, then you will see the real skills come out.

For a personal website, I’d expect a developer to give a fuck enough to develop something on his own.

Re: Personal Website for Programmers

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Post by natrik »

Showcasing my personal website here: [link redacted]

I’m going for a very minimalistic look and it’s still a work in progress, but I’m aiming to keep load times fast, minimal JS, etc.

Features I’m thinking of adding - a links page showcasing interesting links on the internet

Also checkout my 404 page :)

Re: Personal Website for Programmers

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Post by ChickeNES »

ochenvoysim wrote: post #20
patientplatypus wrote: post #2

Ummm....shouldn't a programmer make their own? Dumb question I know.

The website isn't representing their work, the portfolio within is. There's the opportunity cost of the construction vs pre-built. I write smart tv applications for Roku, Fire TV, Apple TV, etc. I'm not a web dev nor do I pretend to be one. However, I would like videos and descriptions of my work displayed in the nicest way possible, like this. If every dev had to only use the code which only they created, this entir…

Yes! You made my point, but much clearer. You want employees who can and will use every available resource, instead of making everything from scratch.
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