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Your personal site is an experience
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Portfolios are a way to market yourself. You want to be able to showcase that you can do work well. Portfolios are awesome to practice web performance, accessibility, and SEO. I made use of Google's Lighthouse application to help me learn best practices and tips along the way.
Your site is lit 🔥
Thanks a lot for the advice sir, will keep on making it better, though I must say I have never seen a portfolio with so much creativity like yours. As I get better in JavaScript, I will try to make my portfolio look something close to yours, with animations.
Sir there is one more thing I would like to find out from you. How do you balance writing code, which I believe you do on a daily basis, and coming up with the many diverse topics you write about on dev.to ? I am asking cause after practicing coding, and I feel like relaxing, I usually just come on dev.to to read what others posted, but I have noticed that every time I come, I see a post from you, and at times more than one.
Honestly, I don't write the most well-crafted posts ever. I write fairly simple things. If I think I have useful advice for one person, I decide to make a post to many instead.
I think this post from @pbeekums offers good advice on the topic:
Letting Go of the Edge Cases
Beekey Cheung
Also, you probably don't notice when I'm not writing as much. Probably some confirmation bias at play.
I just read the post from @pbeekums and though edge case testing is something am yet to learn how to implement, I think I understood him, and I like the fact that his target audience are not the people who are already able to point out the missing things, but rather the people who need a start pointing to get to the level they can start pointing out missing things.
Well, I write drafts first and continue working on drafts. Maybe you can try to do the same.
I think this might actually get me to make a portfolio. I'm still in school, have a nice beginning programming job, so I haven't felt a need to make one just yet, but I think I should go ahead and have one. Looks like fun to make!
Privacy is a relic of the past.
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do you know if there is anything similar to simpleicons.org/ that offers colored icons?
Hi Meghan, I may be misunderstanding your question, but I believe you normally download simple icons as an svg, and then use the fill CSS property to colour the icon to whatever colour you like!
Thanks for the advice!
I was laughing along the road on your site. Great ben
Your site made my year. I couldn't stop scrolling..... wow.
Props fellow Canuck! (P.s. I lived in Sackville NB for a few years - small world eh!)
@ben … your site has inspired me to a new level. 🤣 I couldn't stop scrolling.
It reminds me of /r/ooer.
Damn, I wish I could build a personal site like that someday :)
The many good software developers on dev.to make me feel proud of being part of the dev.to community, will surely add the badge on my site.