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by 0x420 4254 days ago
I'm easily amused by domain hacks, as I suspect most people are. I currently own http://jules.codes and I'm not doing anything interesting with it.
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> This site is powered by AngularJS and jQuery running on the Express framework for node.js and deployed on Heroku, generated using generator-fullstack for the Yeoman workflow automator.

Why not just put a few HTML files on a server and achieve the same thing? I don't even notice any JavaScript on your site.

If I had just put some HTML files on a shared host I wouldn't have been able to learn Angular and Heroku fundamentals while building it ;)
Not noticing the use of JavaScript is actually the beauty of it.
It certainly could use a bit more flair, I think. I chose to avoid that because the goal was to just have something tangible ready by the end of a weekend. I threw the site together while I was looking to switch jobs, so that I could at least say I have minimal experience with frontend MVC. I did end up getting hired elsewhere, so it fulfilled its purpose. Funny enough, we don't use frontend MVC frameworks at all here, but it was a cool learning experience nonetheless.