What are your favorite freelance developer websites?

I'm about to complete my decade as a full-time freelancer. I'm not 100% happy about my own web site, so I wouldn't link it here. However, some pointers:

- Have a blog. This is a common advice you have probably seen many times, but I can say this from first hand experience, that it works. I have received offers just because they came across some of my blog posts.

- Papers and talks: If you have given talks or have written academic papers, have them front and center. They tell a lot about you in a positive way than a thousand words could ever have.

- Unless you are a creative designer, I'd discourage you from reinventing the page design. So don't go for horizontal scrolling, splash pages, or those pie charts that tell everyone you are 90% good at Python.

Good luck.

Saw this one on Twitter the other day. Pretty amazing: https://bruno-simon.com/

I personally hate the run of the mill "Portfolio" sites. I like freelancers who actually write about their work and talk about the interesting problems they have solved. Best way is to create content like Blog Posts, short videos/training materials etc. Heck, write an e-book if you can. Those are the things that will get you the best clients. I recently hired a freelance developer who literally wrote an e-book on Go and the moment I purchased his ebook and went through his quality blog posts, I knew what he could do. Didn't care about him showing me a portfolio site.

How do you feel about this one? www.aladinbs.com