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Very Impressive. Please answer the following questions if possible so mere mortals can learn from.

How much time do you spent on creating vs learning(meaning studying algorithms or anything that will be useful to creating(coding)).

Do you learn regularly.

Do you learn on the days while you create too.

Do you watch TV? If yes what shows do you watch ?

Do you watch youtube to which channels do you subscribe ? Never mind. I found this for those who are interested https://www.youtube.com/user/FogleBird/channels

Do you do exercise ?

Coffee or Tea ?

Does you boss complain about your job as you are very active with side projects ? (or) may be do you think he feels sad about spending all the creative energy on outside work.

What advice do you give for a 2 year experienced guy who wants to be as productive as you ?

How many hours do you sleep perday? Do you sleep at the same time?

Do you listen to music while coding ?

I learn as I go, as needed to get done whatever I'm trying to accomplish. Some projects require a significant amount of "learning" while others may require almost none.

No TV really. I do read books sometimes. Most recently: The Vital Question, Sapiens, Buzz Aldrin and Elon Musk's bios.

Not much exercise these days. Sometimes I'll get into running a couple times a week, but not lately.

Tea. Once or twice a day. Coffee rarely (~once a month).

No complaints at work, I get excellent reviews.

I go to sleep around 11pm and wake up around 8:30 - 9am. Sleep longer on the weekends.

Music while coding: sometimes. If I'm in "the zone", the music will be playing but I'm not conscious of it.

All in all, pretty uninteresting, right? :)

> All in all, pretty uninteresting, right? :)

Not at all. Ten hours of sleep a day for this amount of productivity is pretty interesting. Thanks very much for answering.

Hello HN. I revamped my website to better highlight my side projects and wanted to share it with you. I was going to make this a "Show HN" but the rules say it must be something you can "try out." Not sure you can "try out" a portfolio, although you can certainly try out the projects on it.

Hopefully you will find something interesting or inspirational! Let me know what you think.

I think a website falls into the category of things that you can use.

A surprise to see my name on Hacker News - and realize it's my internet doppelganger! (Hi there!) Trade you!: http://mwfogleman.com/portfolio.html

Hello! I've stumbled on your webpages and such for years now.

Ha! And me as well. You're the main reason my handle these days tends to be mwfogleman or variations thereof. :)

The funny thing to me isn't that there's another person with my name on the internet, who has a presence on the internet. The funny thing is that our interests overlap (to some extent) from what I can tell. I've done less programming but it's been a consistent interest of mine for some time. I tend to program in Clojure but I like Python and Go very much. :)

Really impressive work. I'm a resume writer, career coach, and tech recruiter with nearly 20 years working for startups, and this is the kind of thing that definitely will get you in the door at most employers. As an FYI, I know your resume page probably isn't your "real" resume, but you can definitely move your degree down to the bottom now that you have so much experience.

I love that the social media icons in your footer almost spell out your family name. Nice touch.

Excellent projects. I'm blown away with how much you've completed. How do you maximize your time in order to accomplish so much?

I work serially - one thing at a time, with intense focus. If I'm doing a woodworking project, I'm not programming. All of my free time goes to the current project, basically. In between projects I feel bored and unproductive and long for the next idea to grab my attention.

> If I'm doing a woodworking project

Do you have a showcase of those as well?

Not really, but here's my desk that I made: http://imgur.com/a/tnFNG

Heh, I think that may be a happy coincidence. They seem to be sorted alphabetically by the names of the services, excluding email which is last.

Ha, yeah it's just alphabetical.

How do you find time for family AND pet projects? Do you sleep?

My wife thinks I sleep too much.

Very nicely done. Honestly I wish most pages loaded this fast and had this much content in it. I would like to try doing something similar.

Obligatory question: what is your development stack for this and how is it hosted?

I used Flask and Frozen-Flask for this. So I can run it locally and use some admin forms to add/edit projects and then freeze it into a bunch of static files. Then deployment is straightforward. Pretty happy with how it turned out, I'm a long-time Flask user but never used Frozen-Flask before.

There's a lot of cool stuff on here.

This project in particular is way neat. https://github.com/fogleman/primitive

I think that project was posted to HN some time ago?

Ah well, certainly worth another mention. It turned out really nicely! The effect is almost, (is impressionist the right term?) dk, not an art guy, but it is super cool!

I think someone mentioned this the first time, but framed prints of that effect on photos seems like it would be a hot thing.

You are genuinely a creator. Most of us (by fate or lack of talent) are just dabblers, optimizers or copycats.

That's funny, because I often feel like most of my creations are just copying some other idea.

As someone trying to build a portfolio such as yours, could you recommend me something fun to build? :)

Well, what are you interested in?

Everything! :)

Given your prolific nature of creation, have you done a "startup" or an "entrepreneurial" venture that can scale and even generate profit ? Just curious why or why not ? I would assume you could start a great side company based on your portfolio.

I've obviously thought about that a lot, but I'm not very business-minded. I have a few Mac apps on the App Store that generate some revenue. Perhaps most potential money-generators don't strike me as intellectually interesting?

You and I are kin — that is, of a kind. I too do wood working projects, random coding projects that seem interesting. Apps on the AppStore that barely pay for a run to Starbucks. I exercise more than you do, watch as much TV, read perhaps a little less.

A little surprised (or not) about the people in the thread wondering where you find the time to be so productive (I get that too). Probably the simplest answer I have found is, "I don't watch TV." Usually staring at their feet follows.

Beautiful projects and well organized portfolio! Congrats on the revamped website.

Hey! Thanks for sharing your site. Did you happen to write about what process you followed when going through the revamp? What tools and design choices did you make, etc, etc?

I haven't, but briefly: I wanted to increase exposure to my projects, in a way that didn't require clicking each project to see what it is. I wish GitHub was better at this, somehow. I actually researched other people's personal websites and took notes on what works and what doesn't. I also wanted it to be low maintenance so I'll keep up with it in the future. Those were my driving ideas. I briefly looked at Hugo but decided to use Flask since I'm very comfortable with it. I looked into Bootstrap alternatives like Spectre and Bulma but again stuck with Bootstrap since I'm very familiar with it. But I tried to customize it enough that it didn't look too Bootstrappy.

Thank you!

Nice site it's very clean, also the graphics work awesome

Noob question: Why Go? Python performance was not enough?

Go is way faster than Python. Go's design meshes well with my ideals, so for me it's a joy to use.

Wow! Blown away by your side projects. Great work.

Impressive portfolio!

duuuuuuude... this is AWESOME!

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