Ask HN: Best Personal Sites?
I'm looking for personal home pages to use as reference for a site design. What are your favorites?
The animated transitions are pretty neat, and were even neater 4 years ago when he first built them, but my favorite part about the site is the way he lays out his whole design philosophy through a number of well-documented projects.
Aimed for minimal but nice looking, and tried to push all the tech jargon to the side so you can ignore it if you're non-technical.
It's missing an about section, but that's because I wanted to experiment with my site, work, and resume speaking for who I am over marketing copy. Affects SEO and likely perception, but I built this recently for a grad school application. If rejected will begin applying for a new job/seek new/clients, and am curious to see how receptive it is then. If it performs poorly then, then a new iteration will be made.
Last note, it's not optimized/built for mobile as of now, so points off for that :/
The idea is pretty cool, though, and fun indeed.
Latest Deus Ex game fans should recognize what was my source of inspiration there ;)
Click the link and you're shown something that would look outdated in 2006. Unless you find a blog relevant to your area, you'll abandon that site fast. Medium.com is getting pretty bad, but even their typography makes me at least stick around to scan the first couple of paras.