Putting all of your eggs into Github's basket is great for Github but puts up formidable barriers to evaluating your competence casually.https://twitter.com/sehurlburt/status/864630533271072768 …
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I'm also a big, big fan of engineers writing more. It's a relatively cheap way to demonstrate competence and expose yourself to opportunity.
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Please note that many hiring managers and/or recruiters cannot, given a link to Github, tell you either who did the thing or what it was.
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Of the subset who could actually extract signal from Github on your ability, they've all got a lot of more pressing things to do today.
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Reading is much easier. A single interesting post about a technical topic lets you SAIL over the general bar in the hiring pool.
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If you do not know where that bar is: recall that the industry invented Fizzbuzz for a reason. Look upon our practices and despair.
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