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RE: your GitHub section on the right hand side. I couldn't care less how many repos you're watching. I care about what you're committing, its quality, and gene

RE: your GitHub section on the right hand side. I couldn't care less how many repos you're watching. I care about what you're committing, its quality, and general use by some (any) community. However, putting such details into a CV is way, way too specific, IMO. From a perspective of a recruiter, they have literally 30 seconds to be impressed by your CV. How are they possibly going to be able to evaluate the quality of GitHub commits from the top two or three screenfuls of your CV? As an alternative, consider adding links to particular GitHub commits as proof of some skills, e.g. "I've added end-to-end encryption to ZeroMQ, here's the GitHub commit and a blog post to prove I'm not a charlatan".

robeastham 16y ago
Thanks for the feedback. Though currently Mighty CV doesn't actually display the number of repos watched. My feeling was that listing the last five repos watched would act as a top line indicator as to what someone was currently working on or interested in. The link to your real github profile provides a much better way of showing your activity than can fit in Mighty CV sidebar. That said, I really like your idea of allowing for a couple of handpicked choice commits. I'll give some thought to how to integrate this. Also my choice to use watched items rather than commits stems from my assumption that there are more non active github users, lurkers if you will, watching repos than actively contributing to them. People like me who don't commit or contribute as much as they should probably still watch a lot of stuff. There are likely many reasons for lack of commits from folks such as myself. These could range from lack of time and/or confidence to things like work and family commitments etc. For me I know it's something I need to work on finding the time for, I really hope that I'm able to do this sooner rather than later.

robeastham 16y ago

Thanks for the feedback. Though currently Mighty CV doesn't actually display the number of repos watched. My feeling was that listing the last five repos watched would act as a top line indicator as to what someone was currently working on or interested in. The link to your real github profile provides a much better way of showing your activity than can fit in Mighty CV sidebar. That said, I really like your idea of allowing for a couple of handpicked choice commits. I'll give some thought to how to integrate this. Also my choice to use watched items rather than commits stems from my assumption that there are more non active github users, lurkers if you will, watching repos than actively contributing to them. People like me who don't commit or contribute as much as they should probably still watch a lot of stuff. There are likely many reasons for lack of commits from folks such as myself. These could range from lack of time and/or confidence to things like work and family commitments etc. For me I know it's something I need to work on finding the time for, I really hope that I'm able to do this sooner rather than later.