The portfolio project

Step One: Making a portfolio is hard.

I made my first (and last) portfolio almost 4 years ago. Even though it was a little bit all over the place conceptually I really liked it for three very specific reasons:

1. I had a portfolio with an astronaut floating in space, while the website rotated around him - which I still think is super cool.
2. It got me hired, and isn't that the main goal of any portfolio?
3. I learned an important lesson: Making a portfolio is really hard.

The fact that I learned that last lesson might be why it may come as a surprise that I chose to ignore it and delete my portfolio after only a few months of service.

My main motivation at the time was that I wasn't pleased with the code quality anymore and that it lacked overall performance optimisations. I told myself I'd make a better one and hit delete.

Since then I've toyed with the wildest ideas, but here we are, almost 4 years later and I still have no portfolio.

Somehow there are even more things to take into consideration now and making a portfolio has only become harder.

That's why I decided to start this portfolio project.

For now, this plain and simple HTML page, hosted on Github Pages will be my portfolio. As I progress step by step, I will archive the previous version and replace it with the next and hopefully at the end of the road, I'll be left with a nice plan of how to make a portfolio... For the next time.

In the meantime you can follow my rants on Twitter, watch me take pictures of things on Instagram or be all professional and connect on Linkedin

To be continued...