DEV Community: Emile Paffard-Wray

Feedback on this developer resume prototype?

Emile Paffard-Wray — Wed, 07 Oct 2020 09:06:07 +0000

I made this prototype (https://prototype.profiled.app) after taking some user feedback from my portfolio generator app[0] and also being inspired by using Roam[1] for the last few months. It's essentially a resume with an underlying graph data structure so that the viewer can follow edges to get more detail. I've added a couple of nice demo features but there's much more you could do like automatically rearranging depending on the viewer, creating links to other people via edges, etc.

Would love to get some thoughts/feedback on this from devs here!

[0] - https://profiled.app
[1] - https://roamresearch.com

I made a portfolio generator for developers - feedback appreciated!

Emile Paffard-Wray — Sun, 07 Jun 2020 17:44:07 +0000

Hi there,

I've been working on this project for the past couple of months and decided to really make a push to get it out after I recently got laid off due to the pandemic.

It's a portfolio generator that takes the info from your GitHub account and generates a portfolio website where you can edit the content/design and deploy to web in a few clicks: https://www.profiled.app

Would love any feedback on it from the community here and I hope it could be useful to some of you :)

Interview: Creating FastAPI from a collage of ideas and experience

Emile Paffard-Wray — Mon, 27 Jan 2020 15:45:57 +0000

Hi there. I interviewed the creator of FastAPI (https://sourcesort.com/interview/sebastian-ramirez-fastapi) about his experience researching, designing and developing a Python API framework. I think it provides a lot of good insight into the work that goes into creating a successful open source product. FastAPI has grown pretty quickly (8k stars on GitHub) since it was released a little over a year ago and I think that is largely down to Sebastián's devotion to creating a great developer experience.

I hope there are some useful lessons here for other devs on here, and I welcome any feedback on the format/style of the interview.

Interviews with open source maintainers and developers

Emile Paffard-Wray — Thu, 17 Oct 2019 18:27:26 +0000

When I started working as a developer a few years ago, I barely considered that there were people devoting their free or paid time to all of the open source software I depended on. Of course, every piece of software you depend on has one or more humans behind it, and they have stories to tell which might be instructive for others. Hence I built a site to share those stories (the framework for which is heavily inspired by IndieHackers).

I have 3 main aims with SourceSort: 1) discover and share best practices (and learnings from failures) for other open source maintainers and developers 2) promote the projects and maintainers I interview and 3) satisfy intellectual curiosity. I'd love to hear any feedback from the DEV community on whether I've managed to fulfil these aims so far.

Here's the site: https://sourcesort.com

(And thanks to all of the developers who took part in this first set of interviews, all of whom have been very friendly and generous with their time.)