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> All this makes me want to do is delete my entire Github. I do not want a future employer judging me on the basis of the half-finished amateurish experiments I

> All this makes me want to do is delete my entire Github. I do not want a future employer judging me on the basis of the half-finished amateurish experiments I knock off on my free time as I'm learning a new language or messing around with a new framework or just screwing around in general because I'm bored. I don't understand your complaint. We have free code hosting platforms which support private projects, such as GitLab. You only showcase the projects you want to show, as a public profile is also your portfolio. It makes no sense to showcase half-assed projects you care nothing or feel ashamed to show, as no one forces you to make a git repo public. It's perfectly fine if you do not curate your portfolio, but you also get the same problem if you don't curate your CV. Personally, I received job offers based on my GitHub profile alone, as I happened to have a pet project which uses a particular tech stack used by a company. I know people who were automatically excluded from job applications as they claimed expertise on tech stacks they showcased in their GitHub profiles, and their pet projects included blatant eggregious problems which can only result from incompetence. Companies hire based on the skillset they can evaluate, and if you make it your point to showcase shoddy work then that's a problem you create for yourself.

dottedmag 5y ago
GitHub is not a portfolio website. It's a code sharing platform.
swatcoder 5y ago
Has GitHub introduced some “showcase” feature, because this is the first time I’ve heard that a normal public repository should be a treated as a showcase. Historically, public repos were just where you put code that didn’t need to be private, like hobby code and experiments, just as much as showcase work or supported open source projects. Has the culture changed so much that this way of using GitHub isn’t familiar to you? How do others here see it?
- autarch 5y ago
  > Has GitHub introduced some “showcase” feature, ... Yes, you can pin repos to your profile. But you can also create a profile repo. See https://docs.github.com/en/account-and-profile/setting-up-and-managing-your-github-profile/customizing-your-profile/managing-your-profile-readme https://docs.github.com/en/account-and-profile/setting-up-an... I wrote a blog post about this and the profile generator I made for myself - https://blog.urth.org/2022/03/28/yet-another-github-profile-generator/ https://blog.urth.org/2022/03/28/yet-another-github-profile-...

dottedmag 5y ago

GitHub is not a portfolio website. It's a code sharing platform.

swatcoder 5y ago

Has GitHub introduced some “showcase” feature, because this is the first time I’ve heard that a normal public repository should be a treated as a showcase. Historically, public repos were just where you put code that didn’t need to be private, like hobby code and experiments, just as much as showcase work or supported open source projects. Has the culture changed so much that this way of using GitHub isn’t familiar to you? How do others here see it?

autarch 5y ago
> Has GitHub introduced some “showcase” feature, ... Yes, you can pin repos to your profile. But you can also create a profile repo. See https://docs.github.com/en/account-and-profile/setting-up-and-managing-your-github-profile/customizing-your-profile/managing-your-profile-readme https://docs.github.com/en/account-and-profile/setting-up-an... I wrote a blog post about this and the profile generator I made for myself - https://blog.urth.org/2022/03/28/yet-another-github-profile-generator/ https://blog.urth.org/2022/03/28/yet-another-github-profile-...