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Re: Building a Kickass Portfolio

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Post by thebradbain »

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…

My first attempt at a professional portfolio: http://bradbain.com (or bradba.in)

I’m pretty proud of it, but I know things can always be improved. The portfolios shared in this thread though provide such inspiration!

Re: Building a Kickass Portfolio

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Post by sincerely »

n_ wrote: post #203
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…

https://nathan.sucks I like to think that if any future employers don’t enjoy my self-deprecating humor it probably won’t make a great fit anyway. I used the site as an opportunity to roll my own static site generator for no reason. Bit of a whatever website, but it was a fun learning experience nonetheless.

I like that "Google" links to google.com, so there's no confusion!

Re: Building a Kickass Portfolio

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Post by Brajeshwar »

ihattendorf wrote: post #208
trevor-e wrote: post #204

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Will throw mine in the mix: https://trevore.com/ Static site built with hugo, hosted on a 5$/month DigitalOcean droplet, using LetsEncrypt for TLS. Been considering some other hosting options that might be cheaper since I barely get any traffic, other than a couple times my posts went viral. Huge respect to those that can consistently push out content. I have a big list of articles I want to write, but always lose mo…

Definitely look into something like S3 + CloudFront, or Netlify if you don't want to set any of that up yourself.

Yes, S3 + CloudFront. I host a bunch of domains, including few whose properties/IP/company was acquired. The monthly for the static hosting is less than a dollar a month.

Cloudflare > CloudFront + S3 (sometimes just S3 responding to Cloudflare's request). I could have done Route53 but I've lots of other domains managed by Cloudflare.

I have a single instance Jekyll setup that spits out a bunch of index.html files for all the domains, including my primary personal[1]. To automate further, the setup runs within a few NPM modules, and gulp does the compile and build. When I need to change/update something, I let it build and then deploy to the primary S3 Bucket. The deployment is done with the S3_website[2] Gem.

Been running this setup for over 3 years or so. I can strip away everything and just stay with the minimal Jekyll setup and manually upload the files.

1. https://brajeshwar.me

2. https://github.com/laurilehmijoki/s3_website

Re: Building a Kickass Portfolio

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Post by wild_preference »

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…

The last three jobs I had at smaller companies definitely had someone at least look at my Github portfolio which is quite extensive. I know because the person who looked told me once they were my coworker.

They said it was immediately obvious I knew what I was doing. Nice to have that edge over people who have nothing to show.

Re: Building a Kickass Portfolio

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Post by aspit »

petepete wrote: post #5

I thought .tel domains were restricted to the publishing of contact information rather than websites. Portfolio looks great though!

Thanks!

"Now also available as a generic anything-you-want-it-to-be top-level domain" -- from the .tel site

Re: Building a Kickass Portfolio

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Post by aspit »

balls187 wrote: post #152

Are portfolio sites specific to designers, and/or what used to be known as Web Devs?

Career-wise I'm a mostly backend software engineer whose done some data science-y stuff. Just think its fun to build sites like this, and I do a lot of speaking/blogging now, so its good for that!

Re: Building a Kickass Portfolio

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Post by Baeocystin »

kelvin0 wrote: post #78

I'm an (veteran?) Software Dev with close to 20 years experience. I've never had a portfolio, I always thought a resumé and a list of successfully completed projects was enough. HR usually only looks at resumé, freelance customers usually couldn't care less of it seems. Only devs would care about another devs portfolio (in my opinion). Any other opinions?

Looking at all of these portfolios only serves to remind me that although I work in tech, I have very little in common with frontend devs in terms of what I think is good or interesting. Most of what has been posted as examples of 'these are great personal sites!' I find actively annoying.

I am not a stick in the mud. :) I just work in a different part of the field, and finding work has never been an issue. So do many others, and they're fine, too. I wouldn't worry about it.

Re: Building a Kickass Portfolio

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Post by vxNsr »

aspit wrote: post #190
pmiller2 wrote: post #153

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Seriously. What’s a backend developer to do?

Most of my career has actually been on the backend! Just keep the site simple!

Not to diminish, but by most of your career you mean 2 years, right? Because you say you graduated from college with a BA in 2016.

Truth be told that makes this much more impressive...

Re: Building a Kickass Portfolio

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Post by [deleted] »

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…

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Re: Building a Kickass Portfolio

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Post by rorykoehler »

streety wrote: post #193
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…

My personal site is https://jonathanstreet.com/ It's in need of some help so I've been looking around for inspiration. I'll be taking a look at everything posted. Some I've found previously I like: http://blog.echen.me/ https://www.liyaoxiang.com/ http://www.randalolson.com/ https://jvns.ca/ http://www.nowozin.net/sebastian/ http://www.emilio.ferrara.name/ http://danielnee.com/ http://daynebatten.com/ https://thomasl…

I actually quite like it. It is fast, to the point and funnels you through a way to contact you.
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