A friend gave me the best career advice years ago: make a personal portfolio site.

He said nobody really reads through resumes anymore. A portfolio with lots of screenshots or photos, and a very short paragraph works best. Also tack on a resume for those who ask for it.

Organized by category, date, or whatever makes sense. You can use a blogging engine like Wordpress, or a static hosting platform like Jeckyll or Hugo. Assign it a simple domain (like .work or .portfolio). Keep it updated with latest clippings.

Then whenver someone asks, just point them at the site. Print it on a biz card, make custom stickers, etc.

If you want free hosting, check out Github Pages.

I guess this depends largely on what you do for a living. I use mine as a personal portfolio. It allows me to create galleries of work that can’t be made public. I can also create a new gallery with specific curated content if I need to for a specific job application. I also host my CV and some basic info in my About page. I could blog on it too but I’m not a blog type of person.

Mine is a collection of notes that I want to reference later. Sometimes I share a link with someone who is interested in the same topic.

The front couple of pages have my social media biography and a link to my public resume. Stuff that looks good if a potential employer searches for my name.

The rest is poorly organized notes for my own future reference. Admittedly, “I wrote a blog article on that. I’ll send you the link.” is a common phrase I utter, to friends, in person. I never check back if they read it. Once in an incredibly long time someone later tells me it was pretty helpful.

I did setup a bot to automatically post links onto my existing Mastodon account, from my RSS feed. I’ve gotten occasional positive feedback on Mastodon, for doing so.

Just basic information about myself and maybe a thing or two I’ve done on the Internet.

Someday if I get the time or the server resources, I’d add subdomains to it to host other stuff, for example “lemmy.example.com”, while “example.com” would just be the basic information, and probably a directory to all the other subdomain stuff.

I host the privacy policies for my mobile apps, a consulting site for mobile related consulting work, and a personal start page full of links I use daily.

Mine is a front end for hosted services. Nextcloud, jitsi, and the like.

I actually just got started yesterday. And by “started” I mean, I’m currently creating a graphic to help explain our students at work a specific concept and if that’s online, I’m done with it for the moment. If I find more concepts that could use a graphic, I’ll obviously add more, though.

I plan to just throw it up on Codeberg Pages or Neocities or something.

I have a few; my main site gives details about me, has a page dedicated to hating shitty companies and practices, and links to my clan’s website. Has a bunch of subdomains but it’s essentially “tell me about yourself” in webpage form.

I use my domain for two purposes:

1. I host my own NextCloud instance, so that I don’t have to put my data on someone else’s computer.
2. I have a blog (WordPress) with less that a dozen posts. Just random stuff that interested me and I got myself to actually write up.