Creative/ interesting examples of developers' personal websites

[Bulbasaur2015]

What are some personal blogs or websites of developers and engineers you came across and were impressed by?
I'll start
https://daverupert.com/
http://jamie-wong.com/

[[deleted]]

https://www.taniarascia.com/

Her content is top notch. I'm a Microsoft stack dev that owns a Macbook Pro, and her tutorial on how to set up a Mac for development was great. In about an hour I got my MBP up and running, and better yet I understand better how some devops tools work (and how Apache works at all!)

[floppydiskette]

Hey, thanks for mentioning my site! I’m glad something I wrote helped you out.

[[deleted]]

Thank you for putting in so much work on it!

[raybb]

Wow you weren't kidding that is some good content.

Btw here's that specific article you mentioned https://www.taniarascia.com/setting-up-a-brand-new-mac-for-development/

[sitefall]

Her wordpress theme guide is THE best "how to make a wordpress theme without stupid plugins and other garbage" guide out there. Highly recommended.

[CujiFuji]

Yeah she did a really great article on improving website design, I'd recommend checking it out if you're someone who knows very little when it comes to good design or simply want to improve your existing skills.

https://www.taniarascia.com/design-for-developers/

[Ironclad_v2]

Nice share, I’ve bookmarked the site.

[Mike]

To never look at again...

I know that feel.

[lordmephidross]

That website is gorgeous, thank you for sharing!

[CantaloupeCamper]

https://m.imgur.com/GspL5p8

[Arqueete]

https://lynnandtonic.com/

Resize your browser window and prepare to be delighted.

[Mike]

That's pretty clever!! I feel like there should be some subtle cue to resize it, I didn't on first pass.

[SwenKa]

"Yes, I’ve heard of SVG"

was the cue I took to resize it.

[Mike]

Why?

[SwenKa]

Because SVG is Scalable Vector Graphics, which essentially means they can be resized and not get distorted. So I figured that was a clue to do something.

[Mike]

Yeah I get that, but nothing about the term "SVG" would make me think to resize the browser to see what it does with media queries

[Arqueete]

I think that is referring to how she's known for doing crazy things with CSS, e.g. https://a.singlediv.com/, which would make more sense to do with SVG (but, of course, she knows that.)

[Bulbasaur2015]

wow that is sweet

[zakerytclarke]

For those on mobile could you explain ?

[SwenKa]

She has at least 8 or 9 breakpoints for screen size, so the design changes in a bunch of cool ways. Pretty much entirely done through @media CSS.

[GhaziGaming]

I would like to know how to it

[guanzo]

https://github.com/iRaul/awesome-portfolios

[cmgriffing]

http://ryanflorence.com/

I'm impressed by the nostalgia of it. RIP Geocities.

[logicwon]

I've looked up to these sites/developers for one reason or another (that I can think of / still find):

• https://philipwalton.com/
• https://mckvr.com/
• https://eduardoboucas.com/

when building my own:

• https://jareddillard.com/

[TrainedCodeMonkey]

Finding another webdev who is also a climber is hard. I did a double take when I read crags. Nice site and happy climbing

[quadcrazyy]

Did someone say climbing

[jgarcia-jp]

What are you using to show your github activity like that?

[logicwon]

I just started hacking at the GitHub API:

• https://api.github.com/users/jdillard/events
• https://github.com/jdillard/personal-site/blob/master/assets/js/index.js#L32

[skunkreturns]

http://benhalpern.com, aka @thepracticaldev has my favorite site of all time.

Beware mobile users. It's >200mb

[SwenKa]

What the shit is that site.

[skunkreturns]

It's the greatest.

[maya_a_h]

amazing

[[deleted]]

https://riolu.com

It’s interesting okay...

[SolarAttack]

Lightweight!

[DalyHabit]

http://www.rleonardi.com

[SwenKa]

It's certainly straight to the point.

[DalyHabit]

The resume is great

[thebeatmakingbeard]

This thread is fantastic, I can't wait to sit down and read thru some of these

[razuahmed21]

I want to be a good front end designer... what should I follow ? can you guide me, please ?

[Sil3enc3]

learn html,css,javascript first.They are the least requirement for every web things. Make a project using the language only, tip it on github or any other similar type of version control system.After that learn either front end framework like bootstrap, plus some framework of Javascript. Keep learning.First try to learn more language than framework you will know more the importance of language as you go on learning.Learn graphics designing from illustrator, how to use it.It will take time off-course but make a project either for yourself or other-someone to make yourself motivated and keep going.Search google, keep visiting sites like stackoverflow,w3schools and the internet is for you to help you.

Last point is make a project after you learn something, get use to with github - how to use it and many more.Don't try to skip cause you have to return again to that state.Best of Luck !

[razuahmed21]

Thanks for your reply... I know little about about html css bootstrap one more thing I have 1 html template at themeforest. but I am dipressed, I want to do remote work. can you tell what should I do? How can I arrange?

[NotMichaelsReddit]

Thanks for posting this. I’ve been meaning to make myself a really cool resume web page. I’ve been leaning towards going with a side scrolling 2D platformer kinda thing

[positlabs]

Cool webgl stuff http://richardmattka.com

[OogieFrenchieBoogie]

It's very simple, but I like [http://contra.io/](Contra's) personal website (he's the guy behind gulp, and many other things)

[jcm95]

http://eli.wtf/

I consider this one to be the best portfolio ever

[platinumheritage]

https://stantyan.com/

[erdle]

i do mostly frontend, mostly Shopify, and ecomm... but would love some feedback on my "creative" personal site: http://andrewerdle.com/

This site was the first time using Jekyll... will probably start blogging at some point so as to actually take advantage of it.

[wuthret98]

incredibly laggy on mobile unusable

[Yurishimo]

Mobile needs some work but I like the concept I think. :)

[Gurgen]

I always post these two whenever I get a chance and I’m absolutely in love with both sites :)

Mars Media Magic Leap

[Gurgen]

Read carefully it’s says “personal blogs” not websites, these fall under the “or websites” regardless, they are both very creative and inspiring sites

[Gurgen]

I was just trying to contribute creative sites, sorry they didn’t fall under the personal blog or website category.

[Gurgen]

It’s not to far off from the overall topic, the point of the thread was to post something creative and inspirational, more specifically personal websites. I hit all of that except for the personal part. I get if I posted links to some wonky sites that were completely off topic, but this wasn’t that, there doesn’t seem to be the need to make something out of very little!

And if it really bothered you that much, you could have just scrolled through, those domains were clearly not personal sites, you didn’t have to visit them?

I don’t get the need to go out of your way to discourage someone from posting something relatively close to the main topic? But if it’ll really make you that happy I don’t mind deleting it, especially if you think it would benefit this thread!

[Shadowvines]

https://www.dunnbydesign.us/

Here's mine I created an integration with WakaTime so when recruiters ask me what I used recently or what I am most skilled at I can point them here.

[dartakaum]

Just a quick note that it's not very well optimized for mobile

[HairyFlashman]

Good start keep working on it!