I certainly wouldn't just have a video, if you want have a video that goes through the same stuff, but in video format, that's fine. Josh Comeau uses the word 'Tour Guide' and I think this is a great way to approach what you should be putting on your portfolio. So I always tried to learn about how things worked. Josh (12:51):Yeah, no, definitely. Thanks for having me. Josh (08:54):I do think it can be helpful to link to the code. There's a lot of potential upsides you get from having a good portfolio. Josh (09:41):The easiest thing is to steal something. And even if you're of the attitude that, "I'm a developer, I'm not a designer. I do think skill bars are probably the clearest example of a thing that many people do that really nobody should do. If you have images, maybe put them all in rectangles, all in ovals, try and use a consistent of color palettes. In order to get scheduled for an interview, you're going to have to stand out somehow. We all hit random error messages that we have to Google and find solutions for. Josh Comeau shows us how the wonderful interaction from his blog works, all with some clever math and canvas! I'm a software developer. What does that tell me about why you did this and why you wanted to do this? He also creates lots of CSS demo on this Codepen profile. Spoiler alert: all the advice is actionable.You'll learn why you need to have a portfolio, how to make one, and is there a formula that works. On his portfolio page, you can find the following information: Jack's portfolio is very eye-catchy! That's totally fair. How long does a cover letter need to be, and what are the key points you need to hit? Jhey is a Web Developer with vast experience in the web development area. Even though it's a blog, I wanted to include it in this list because it's really well done. And 500 people responded to that. This book is an instruction manual for creating a portfolio site that stands out to prospective employers. It probably depends on the company too. Facebook gives people the power to. What have you learned from this project? About. The ultimate goal of a developer portfolio should be to show employers we're competent at building stuff. Thank you all for responding. But the goal is just to make sure the design gets out of the way so that you're not distracting from the content, which is the important thing. So yeah, I do think the strategic angle, maybe I'm over strategizing or trying to over engineer this process, but essentially find a place you can shine in that process.And often the portfolio site is one of the best places to do that, because with a bit of effort and strategizing, you can really create a portfolio site that stands out from a group. But it could just be that they've interviewed people with a similar work profile and it just didn't go well. You know it, I know it. Jan (44:12):This episode was produced by me, Jan Arsenovic. I figure it's a really nice segue because the big reason I was excited to speak with you today was about your book, which is about building an effective developer portfolio. But the company values or things like that, if you can go through the company's values and find ones that honestly, and legitimately appeal to you or that like resonate with you. Because I think every project should have its own page and that page should go into deeper detail about how the project works. It's okay if it's pretty minimal, it can just be a photo or an illustration, some sort of decorative thing at the top with your name, a couple of sentences and then a list of projects.And each of those projects can have, as we mentioned earlier, their own page that describes what is this thing? Josh (11:11):I wish I had proper data for this. Dan Spratling is a user experience consultant working with teams around the world to help create outstanding websites. Maybe you can rearrange the sections, but even if you can, you can't add two pages worth of content to a project without them tucking it behind a read more expander, you're beholden to their presentation. Josh (43:32):The pleasure's all on this side of the table. It's certainly a riskier approach in terms of you might spend one or two or 10 hours working on an application for a specific company and the company maybe filled the role by the time you apply. Alex (23:45):When does it make sense then to use a template? I've taken everything I know on the subject and condensed it into a 70-page book. Alex (13:46):I have come across that a few times and it's certainly worth giving it a go. And no one's going to notice if you steal the spacing from some other site, if everything else looks different. And because of that, I feel weird charging money for people that are just getting started in their career.Especially like you just spent a whole bunch of money on a bootcamp in many cases. I hope these portfolios help with inspiration, and you are ready to build your new portfolio. And so memorable is a really important thing. Alex (39:07):Words come easy when they're true. Structure Enjoy our full podcast with Joshua Comeau linked in the comments below! Find 1 person named Josh Comeau along with free Facebook, Instagram, Twitter, and TikTok search on PeekYou - true people search. But if you see a Tailwind logo, as a HR person, you don't know it's Tailwind necessarily, unless it's the letter mark. I may take a while getting back to you. 34 records for Josh Comeau. Alex (20:42):You're saying that a really great design tip is when in doubt be consistent, same font, same patterning, same line heights. When you have the typical thing where it's eCommerce platform, built in React Redox, a single screenshot. Choose projects that tell a story 4. I think we know projects, that's something we spoke about before, but there are all kinds of things you can put on your portfolio. And I really appreciate that because I think it's important we take a measured approach. Strong quality assurance professional graduated from Alberta health and training Institute. Come up with your own layout, come up with your own colors, but then just steal the font size and the specific number of pixels between the headings and the paragraphs. Robb is a Developer, Designer and he has experience of approximately Alex (12:41):Yeah. The development portfolio of Melanie Seltzer, showcasing projects and overall experience. Alex (00:34):He's previously worked with some companies you might have heard of like Unsplash, Khan Academy, Digital Ocean, and Gatsby. And I started doing sales and working for money, chasing for money, but in the end money doesn't make me happy. There's a lot of potential upsides you get from having a good portfolio. The colour combinations work really well, and the animations work seamlessly. As you mentioned them earlier as being really important, and also I think actually the cover letter ties in a lot of things we spoke about today. You don't want it to look like an exact clone because if anyone recognizes it, it's not a good look. So you said, "Okay, I'll build a calculator." My name is Alex. Now, he works as a creative developer and freelancer. And as a design endeavor, they will use the logos of the technologies like Tailwind, for example. They all just took the same source, inspiration and copy pasted. Josh Comeau, joshwcomeau.com. And it seems like a really important problem that you're solving." Come up with a new cover letter. How to write compelling, personal, memorable copy. Swipe to discover: 1. How to be a tour guide, guiding readers through a deep under-the-hood exploration of your projects, and what makes them great. We'll look into the stack, the decisions he made, a. I've been doing stuff on the web, I started tinkering in 2007, 2008, but professionally been doing it since about 2014. Alex (34:58):Let's talk finally a little bit about cover letters. His portfolio layout and design are really different from others and unique. Oluwakemi's portfolio page contains a handful of information such as: Max is a Front-End Developer and Designer with an experience of 15 years in the industry. The logos may not be serving that purpose as well as just putting the name of the tool. My own blog is maybe a decent example of this. He also wrote a book on ho. And actually sometimes even though you're taking well intentioned advice, arguably those practices, like skill bars in particular, can do more harm than good. And I think the best way to fight those biases is to push through the system as it is now, and then work to change the system. You don't want it to be more than a page. A portfolio should be personal and memorable. You want to prove to them that you overcame challenges and in my opinion, that's the most important tool for a developer. But it's not a quick process, and it's not something that you can hack if you want the real thing. And I know that's another question that's hard for people to learn because it's part of development. He worked in some companies you might have heard of (including, but not limited to, DigitalOcean, Gatsby, and Khan Academy). Maybe you could do both, you could put the logo and the name. It got me wondering, what was your motivation to write that book and offer it for free? Tinashe Makuti is a software developer and data engineer from Zimbabwe but currently based in Nice France. About the episodeMeet Josh W. Comeau ! Reply with a link to it! . 20 years in tech. Friendly tutorials for developers. Now, he works as a creative developer and freelancer. I started reviewing portfolio sites in the first place because I know how powerful they can be, especially for folks early in their career. Josh Comeau (01:03): Definitely. So we can learn from both sides how you can find success in the industry. Josh (40:13):I think you can actually take a mixed approach. Maybe you can't afford, time wise, to do it for everything. And as an example, I used to yo-yo semi competitively, I really liked yo-yoing. Although it's not a "portfolio," it's one of the best personal websites I've ever visited. So you move your cursor between the heading and the paragraph and it shows you like, "Oh, there's 72 pixels between these two things. Your portfolio site can be a secret weapon. Not least of which the point of the cover letter and the resume and your portfolio is to get your foot in the door and do an interview. Do you have any advice on how to either improve your intuition, when you are designing? And maybe if you're building six okay projects, you should have just built one that you're really passionate about and can tell a story about.And the third thing, which I really want to get your advice on because you've mentioned it a few times. Anurag Hazra is a passionate self-taught frontEnd web developer from India, currently working at timeless.co as a FrontEnd engineer. Annie included testimonials from people she collaborated with. Check out this great listen on Audible.com. Do you want to know the ins and outs of running a successful freelance business as a developer? Nobody expects when you graduate from dentistry school and you're looking to become a dentist, no one expects you to talk passionately about cavities. My projects section had some thumbnails, a small section about the app, and links to the live site and Github. Just starting with the basics. Portfolio made with Next.js, TS, Tailwind.css and love - GitHub - Fullchee/portfolio: Portfolio made with Next.js, TS, Tailwind.css and love . This book is an instruction manual for creating a portfolio site that stands out to prospective employers. Annie is passionate about bringing both the technical and visual aspects of digital products to life. Belfast, Northern Ireland, United Kingdom. Despite all the benefits of having a portfolio, most developers don't have one because they don't know what to include, leave out or say about themselves in their portfolio. If you're looking to break into the industry, my hope is that this book will give you a serious edge. This week, we are joined by indie hacker and course creator Josh Comeau. Those are design questions, and if you can build a bit of an intuition, it really helps with that.Because the alternative is every time you hit one of these situations, you have to ping the designer and say like, "Hey, I'm stuck here." I found I kept giving the same feedback over and over. So there's a lot of effort being put into making sure because bees are so important for the whole food chain process. Although it certainly doesn't hurt.I think it does help to put either an email address or a contact form. It is known for its high performance, flexibility, ease of use, security, and speed. . You can't patent that. Michael enjoys working closely with design teams to faithfully translate their designs right down to the last pixel. Josh (07:48):Right. What about this company has appealed me, has drew me in? By the way, if you are looking to learn how to code, you can use these resources to learn to code for free. But to a non-technical person, probably means nothing to them if they just go to get a profile or project with an empty README. So shorter is better, but obviously you don't want it to be three sentences, it needs to look like a page that has stuff on it. On the other end someone's receiving this and it is immediately obvious. Let me put that I have like 6/10 JavaScript. Understanding our target audience: the two groups of people we should focus on. You don't want to put everything you've ever made on that because realistically people are going to look at one, maybe two things and they're going to pick randomly.If you built a calculator in half an hour and it's your 17th item in the list, that might be the only thing someone sees, which is not great. Meet Josh W. Comeau ! Joshua has 9 jobs listed on their profile. And so someone was applying to a company that worked in this industry and they took the time to learn about that industry and figure out what the deal was. So it's not meant for people that are seasoned professional developers, people that have been in the industry for a long time. View Josh Comeau results including current phone number, address, relatives, background check report, and property record with Whitepages. Like I mentioned earlier, there's two audiences you're appealing to. You can see all the previous iterations if you go to the archive page. There are two main target audiences. Alex (40:56):During this interview, you've said a phrase a couple of times, which is that you don't have the stats for this. That doesn't really tell me anything. Monica Lent is a software engineer and founder of the Blogging For Devs community. And so they talked about that in their cover letter, "Hey. And in 2020, I left that type of work to focus on education. Inspired Tweets. Which I think to you and I sounds intuitive at this point, because we write a lot of stuff and I'm doing a podcast, you're creating courses and things. Thank you for listening and make sure to check out the show notes for all the resources mentioned in this interview, including Josh's book. Josh Comeau uses a lot of good examples and goes into more details than I do in these notes. I imagine it could, it certainly doesn't have to be a portfolio site. Unfortunately, things rarely work out this way. I'm a pixel pusher, and I like writing good code. Bruno's portfolio page is actually an interactive game. He is an Indie hacker and instructor at Concordia Bootcamps. He also wrote a book on how to build an effective web dev portfolio. About the episodeMeet Josh W. Comeau ! If the company's really interesting to you might want to spend time playing with their API or if they have any public source code, getting familiar with what they've made available and talking about that. See the complete profile on LinkedIn and discover Joshua's connections and jobs at similar companies. Potential employees have tangible evidence of your credibility with real-world topics, languages and frameworks. And most projects are more nuanced than that. How does a portfolio compare to say a LinkedIn profile or a resume? Try taking notes on your projects, it can help you see the progress you've made, but it will also help you write a details page. Sadly, CSS has no such thing. For the projects, don't just link to a live version of the project or a GitHub page. You just want it to be well designed enough that the design doesn't bring it down, that doesn't call attention in a bad way to it.Ultimately, it's probably not the worst thing in the world if you take a template and just run with it. Josh Comeau. Steal the spacing from something else that you think looks good. We will see you next week. Why you need a portfolio 2. I have this project over here that seems like it's vaguely similar. The portfolio structure is good, highlighting who he is and the work experience he has as a developer. Please note I'm currently dealing with a nerve injury, which limits how much time I can spend on a computer. And maybe they have an interesting company value. And you don't want that. And so that's an additional hurdle that I know is tough for a lot of people. You're applying to intermediate jobs and hoping that you can find a way in any way. Alex (34:34):You're not trying to write the next Lord of the rings, Star Wars, song of Ice and Fire or something. As a junior developer, your portfolio of projects is the greatest asset you have. That's like the perfect thing to put in this page, because that's gold in the eyes of the developers that are coming and looking at this and trying to figure out if you'd be a good addition to their team. Robb's portfolio is great in all aspects. Plus: why everybody needs junior developers and how to create an exciting portfolio project even if you don't have any niche interests to base them on. Choose projects that tell a story 4. It's not always so easy to convince yourself when you're a new developer on the back foot, but it's great when senior developers are put in positions to mentor others, because that will challenge their understanding and help them then teach it.And from an industry perspective as well, there's only a finite number of developers in the ocean, say. It can be hard to show interviewer you have enough technical experience but this is where portfolios can help them shine through. I like this one a lot because it's arty and full of content. It's not like a book or a movie when it's done, it's done. But the more, sinister is too strong of a word, because I do think it's not sinister at all. "Tell me about why you wanted to build this project? You're looking to appeal to developers and to HR folks. One thing I like and do not see in other portfolios are the testimonials. Whether an article is painted with custom components used to help visualize a certain CSS tip, or readers are . And on that note, Alex will tell us what to expect in the next episode. He worked in some companies you might have heard of (including, but not limited to, DigitalOcean, Gatsby, and Khan Academy). Josh (24:09):I think it gets back to the idea of finding two or three templates that you like and mixing them together. .css-y5tg4h{width:1.25rem;height:1.25rem;margin-right:0.5rem;opacity:0.75;fill:currentColor;}.css-r1dmb{width:1.25rem;height:1.25rem;margin-right:0.5rem;opacity:0.75;fill:currentColor;}5 min read. All of those companies are sort of the same, because they don't have a unique product. Especially if you understand the context behind the design's. Ultimately, the silver lining to this is that it will automatically tune out people. Maybe even a precursor to what we're talking about now is how do you come up with a portfolio project? He also wrote a book on how to build an effective web dev portfolio. A few months ago, I offered to review developer portfolios on Twitter: I got so many replies! You can unsubscribe whenever you'd like. Two or three sources of inspiration and combining them to build something that still doesn't look too much like any of them, but still looks pretty professional. Jhey is a freelance web developer who loves to brings ideas to life with web technologies. Olaolu's portfolio is excellent, and I recommend checking it out! As a result, more and more developers plan to start their content creation journey. Josh Comeau. Example 01: The Website Of Josh Comeau. Minimal design 5. Originally created by Josh Comeau, I have been actively contributing since July 2018. I wish we lived in a world where when you create a portfolio site for a development job, the design, in terms of like the UI design, shouldn't matter because you're not applying for UI design jobs. You will be surprised by how helpful a little bit of design intuition is as a front end developer specifically.Because when you work as a front end developer, you'll be given a design in Figma or Sketch or something like that. But no, certainly that's not the expectation. With that being said, see Lynn's portfolio page in action. A job-seeker . So put a lot of work into the companies that you're really interested in and then spend five minutes on the ones where you're And who knows, maybe that will pan out because for certain companies it's just hard to imagine doing it any other way. Let's say you're an agency that you build client websites for different companies. #22 Josh Comeau. Lynn Fisher is a Busan-born, American artist known for her work on the web. And like you mentioned, it is very well intentioned people that are just doing what they've seen other people do. Overall, the blog is really good and worth visiting! But then like that doesn't look great either." 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