Interesting how this question is becoming a source of examples for personal website!
Mine: http://www.goncalves.me
Some nice ones on top of my head:
* http://victorfern91.github.io/
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#282http://louis.merlin.family Kept it minimal :)
"Pomo Space" reads like something else, especially in the font you use :-|
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#283http://natwelch.com is mine, I use it more as a cover letter to try and get people to contact me. It works somewhat well. I love looking at people's personal sites though. I've got a small index of them from over the years at http://pinboard.in/u:icco/t:personal .
For your age timer, you should use a mono-spaced font so it doesn't jump around like that.
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#284http://blog.soulshake.net/2016/04/command-line-resume/
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#285http://www.dhteumeuleu.com/
And it was open source before it was cool.
Re: Ask HN: What are the best personal project websites you've seen?
#286I made a simple one in a style of unsent email:
https://valiafetisov.com
Would be glad to hear any feedback!
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#287Earlier quoted context omitted.
Funny enough my first experience with worrydream was without JS, as with most new websites. And it's much better then.
:) I loved it when I first looked at it, but it vandalized itself when I turned JavaScript on.
me three. I went there and saw a basic resume. thought, ok. whatever. then i saw the comments about turning javascript on. the horror
Re: Ask HN: What are the best personal project websites you've seen?
#288https://dbatools.io - started as a solo project, which the lead developer has gotten others involved in. The site is simple, the descriptions of each of the cmdlets (functions) are excellent.
Every open source project needs a site like this.
Re: Ask HN: What are the best personal project websites you've seen?
#289I like this one.
https://www.igvita.com/
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#290http://www.gwern.net/ Does gwern fall into this category? While I'd need to know more about what he's like in person, the author certainly seems like a technically competent individual.
While likely not specifically what the submitter was looking for (that is, will help you get hired), the fact that I immediately searched for "gwern" in the comments so I could upvote or submit myself points towards it definitely being am example of a personal site/project that is memorable.
I've never heard of gwern, but would definitely be more likely to hire than other sites I've seen here. The others are very much: overengineered, presentation-over-content, presentation-over-function, inaccessible. Effectively, they represent an overt focus on the "shiny" while neglecting the usually less exciting, but significantly more important, aspects of development. Not traits I would value in an employee.
Gwern's is up-front about one thing: communicating content clearly.
That said, a prospective employer may very well be more swayed by "the shiny": while I would deem that in poor judgement, I may be in a minority, so these other sites could be more likely to get you hired in practice.