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Discussion on: Why did you pick the avatar you use?

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Pierre Bouillon

I don't like the idea of sharing pictures of me but when I built my first website I thought that it be prettier with a image. After browsing GitHub and other forums/websites (dev.to !) I decided to create my very own logo to put everywhere on different sites, including mine.

I was a totally into Sublime Text and minimalism, after thinking about it a couple of weeks, I created my logo (which I still use). I merged the P and the B of my name to remind the "viewer" that is it "Pierre Bouillon", took a dark theme as I thought that it was more related to back-end development (dark theme, tons of lines on screen, etc. typical shutterstock pictures ! ) and finally I added brackets all around to be as explicit about my job as possible for someone not into programming.

I am still satisfied of my little logo, even if that's certainly not the best one, it's mine ! :)

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Mark Nicol

That is so clever - I didn't spot that until I looked at your profile page. Nice and elegant.

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Ben Sinclair

Yeah, it's not really visible in the icon and I was expecting it to look the same when I embiggened it, but the one on the profile page is actually pretty cool.

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Robin Kretzschmar

Great idea with the merge of the beginning letter! :)