Despite the hype about how open source helps your career and how github==resume, I've had 2/50 interviews where someone's looked at my code
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your blog is also atypical though, maybe like being the founder of a well known github project
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I agree that it's atpyical, but I think that it's much easier to have a "widely" read blog than a widely known OSS project.
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How has your blog helped your career? Have people offered you jobs after reading your blog?
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Not directly, but people invite me to come and interview, and I've definitely passed interviews I "should" have failed.
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what are the implications of that? Fake it until you make it? Bullshiting instead of bool shifting? :)
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or maybe people care more about your ability to communicate and educate others. Blogging w/o knowledge isn't going to help you
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urgh I *know* I should switch my focus, but it always seems more productive to write code than write about it :/
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