Hi Johannes, thanks for your good article, although (like you said yourself) the headline can be misleading. I have updated my portfolio website after keeping a very simple microsite for nearly eleven years. During that time, I was employed as a web developer and got a lot of recruiter contacts and job offers on LinkedIn, Xing, and later also some on StackOverflow, Honeypot, and 4Scotty. So I would agree that the spare time can be invested better and with lower risk by building a side project on GitHub and becoming an active part of the developer community e.g. answering questions on StackOverflow.
For all of those who do want to create a portfolio: this can be a great way to show your knowledge and experience, once you have some things to show. You should also know what you are not good at and hire another professional like you would do when working for a customer. So if you are good at writing clean code, spend some money for a designer and a writer and concentrate on your own strengths.
For me, rebuilding a website from scratch gave me the opportunity to make things better than I could do in most of my past assignments. But I only had time to do so, once I quit my company job to become a freelancer again. Read my story for more details about my portfolio project: dev.to/ingosteinke/creating-a-fast...
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Hi Johannes, thanks for your good article, although (like you said yourself) the headline can be misleading. I have updated my portfolio website after keeping a very simple microsite for nearly eleven years. During that time, I was employed as a web developer and got a lot of recruiter contacts and job offers on LinkedIn, Xing, and later also some on StackOverflow, Honeypot, and 4Scotty. So I would agree that the spare time can be invested better and with lower risk by building a side project on GitHub and becoming an active part of the developer community e.g. answering questions on StackOverflow.
For all of those who do want to create a portfolio: this can be a great way to show your knowledge and experience, once you have some things to show. You should also know what you are not good at and hire another professional like you would do when working for a customer. So if you are good at writing clean code, spend some money for a designer and a writer and concentrate on your own strengths.
For me, rebuilding a website from scratch gave me the opportunity to make things better than I could do in most of my past assignments. But I only had time to do so, once I quit my company job to become a freelancer again. Read my story for more details about my portfolio project: dev.to/ingosteinke/creating-a-fast...