Maybe we should turn the premise around. I agree that most recruiters and hiring manages won't look at your side projects. But as a prospective employee, I'd w

Maybe we should turn the premise around. I agree that most recruiters and hiring manages won't look at your side projects. But as a prospective employee, I'd want to work at a place where those count. I want colleagues who are passionate about their tools and tech. Not just people who churn out "solutions" and "applications" for someone else's problem in a Blub language. I want to work at a place where people appreciate open source contributions, because that's not a place where people violate the GPL or do the minimum neccessary to appease the lawyers. I want to work at a place where people appreciate design taste and are happy that I put in a mere half day more work to make the product polished, instead of rushing it to the door prematurely (in chase of profit now, but detrimentally long term). So, as a picky job searcher, I would totally put up a portfolio and clean up my GitHub. Even if only to see if they notice.