>Don’t do it because you think it will help you get a job (I’m not even sure parent is correct that it will). As a hiring manager, the open source projects and

>Don’t do it because you think it will help you get a job (I’m not even sure parent is correct that it will). As a hiring manager, the open source projects and blogs people sell on their CVs is impressive if it looks like self-motivated interest, and annoying if it looks thinly self-promotive. The two inherently intersect but when it skews to the extreme of self-selling it isn't taken as seriously from what I observe.