One issue with trying to stand out is that you might stand out in a bad way, rather than a good way. I have a blog, and a Github profile, but I'm not sure if I

One issue with trying to stand out is that you might stand out in a bad way, rather than a good way. I have a blog, and a Github profile, but I'm not sure if I want employers looking at them, since a lot of my writing is poor, and a lot of my code is bad. There's good stuff there as well, I think, but my model of employers is that they are more concerned about false positives than false negatives, they tend to see "red flags" as nullifying any positive traits, and so, when they're examining my public portfolio, the parts that are bad are going to stick out and become salient in their mind, moreso than the parts that are good. I don't worry about this too much though because in my experience, no employer has ever looked at these things (even though I have usually made some mention of them on my CV). If they have they've never mentioned it at interview.