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How I Cloned VSCode to use as my Portfolio

Naya Willis on August 09, 2020

I would like to introduce you all to my portfolio called WhatYouCodingBoutWillis! It took me a good 4 to 5 days to complete this and I can happily ...
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Clark • Edited

So good!
I love your idea! I saw a similar idea before, but the different is that he made a game: peteroravec.com/

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Naya Willis

This is DOPE. lol. That's the thing about us developers. We get to be creative as can be

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Usman Khalil • Edited

It's amazing. My two cents.
How about changing the background. It really doesn't match the VS Code.

And I have a question? How do you keep yourself motivated for your own projects. I started one this April but I hardly commit one day a week.

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Naya Willis

I try to just tune out everything else that isn't important and get what I have to get done, done. Sometimes it's hard though. But, you can do it.

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Andre Horstmann

That is pretty cool!! Was it hard to change the vscode source code to reflect your program?

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Naya Willis

Can you elaborate a little please? I feel like I understand but I don't ha

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Andre Horstmann

Sure :-) did I get it right that you used the vscode source code to compile your own tool? And that you did so by changing the source code? If so, was it difficult?

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Naya Willis • Edited

Oh no. My this is a 100% clone from scratch. From <!DOCTYPE> to the closing html tag. I wrote my own source code to accomplish everything you see.

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William Henderson

I did something similar to this by using HTML, CSS and JS to put my portfolio in a terminal... Yours is much cooler though! w-henderson.github.io

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Naya Willis

wow, I like the animation

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Shripathy 🚀

Looks amazing 🔥

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Naya Willis

Thanks Shripathy

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Bharath Sriraam R R

Amazing creativity! Just awesome!

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Jai Marshall

This is so cool.

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Naya Willis

Thanks Jai

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Well It is quite nice idea and nice work. keep it up!!

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Naya Willis

Thanks Dhirendra

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Naya Willis

I actually never heard of that, I'll definitely look into that

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Chloe

What a great idea! I especially like the fact you've got the mini-map in there :)

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Naya Willis

Lol, I thought it'd be cool to add that ha. I basically just took a literal screenshot of w.e code I can see and used that.

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