I'm currently duckduckgoing "top 10 portfolio designs" and stuff like that because I'm looking to create something myself and learn some React along the way, but at lot of these pages seem so tryhard and self pretentious.

ESPECIALLY this fucking thing: http://piotrswierkowski.com/home

They are. I think information of your portfolio is the only thing matter for a portfolio website. Most of them will awe you with the graphic, elements, transition effects and the likes. But not much info when I read each portfolio. In the link you gave, I clicked on one of the portfolio and all I got is 1 image and this.

SPARTAN 2017

WEB DESIGN / UX / USER INTERFACE

http://spartan2017.dk

NEW SEASON OF ONE OF THE DISCOVERY NETWORKS DANMARK'S PROGRAMMES.

@CurseMeSlowly what did you do? What issues did you solve? What solution did you create? Which tools did you use?

Those are the things I want to know more. 🤔

Serious talk, am i the only one who has issues with react sites? Like facebook is slow as fuck and this one too.

If you wanna see a cv with absolutely zero effort, check out mine in my bio

@BindView Well, I don't even know when I'm on a react site

@CurseMeSlowly Yes, I can probably imagine the guys working as recruiters begging for the next portfolio not to be like the previous one.

@BindView bad apple please. Upload to SoundCloud please. 😁

Agencies eat that shit up though. I know for a fact that people at my office - especially the directors and the designers - would fall over themselves trying to hire that dude. My point is, generally speaking we devs have our own preferences and ideas about what a website should be like, but those preferences and ideas often differ from those of the people we have to work with/for.

@Jilano @CurseMeSlowly if i ever go to a devrant meetup i will publicly sing a buncha weeb songs

@gregjs got your point. To an average people, those are "such wow, much design, amaaaazing" 😂