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My personal website - from zero to hero in 5 years

Adrian Bece on January 21, 2020

Personal websites are useful, offer complete creative freedom and they are a cool way of showcasing your work and testing your current skills. Ther...
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Madza • Edited

Progress bars on skill-sets are absolutely worst.

Example: put Node skills to 97,23% and if the interview gets too hard, just say how dare they to examine you in those 2,77%, which is uncharted territory for you, and leave.

Glad you found a way around, tho :)

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Adrian Bece

Yeah, my thoughts exactly :D

I never liked to see them on CVs. They might look stylish, but they convey no info whatsoever.

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Nicola Erario

you haven't aged at all in 5 years, have you?

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Adrian Bece

Yeah, I need to get a good photo taken first to update it :D

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Stephanie S.

This was an amazing post! I'm currently in the process of creating my own website and feel frustrated because it's not turning out how I want it to. Then again...I just started learning how to code and with time I know it will grow along with my skills :) Thank you for showing and explaining your process!

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Adrian Bece

Glad you've enjoyed it. Good luck with your project. I know exactly how frustrating it can be. Just remember you're creating this website for yourself and that you have the choice to improve it whenever you feel it's the right time.

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Haikel Fazzani

perfect website...

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Adrian Bece

Perfect until some new tech or design pattern comes out that makes it outdated :) But thank you

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Jingles (Hong Jing)

Good job Adrian. I enjoyed your journey from this article as much as you had fun changing your website.

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Jingles (Hong Jing)

And I just did a speed test, you Ace it!

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Adrian Bece

Thank you very much. I'm glad you've enjoyed it.

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Clive Da

i'd give you a job based on this !

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Adrian Bece

Thank you. Glad you've enjoyed the article.

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aleBiagini

Really a god job man! Very nice :)

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Adrian Bece

Thank you, glad you like it!

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Waylon Walker

Love the animated title.

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Nested Software

This is really beautiful work. The design is simple, without affectation, but everything is done just right.

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Adrian Bece

Thank you. It's exactly what I've been aiming for!