A couple of years ago, I would have agreed with this. But at this point, if you're not active on GitHub and/or StackOverflow (assuming you're hiring for open s

A couple of years ago, I would have agreed with this. But at this point, if you're not active on GitHub and/or StackOverflow (assuming you're hiring for open source technologies), I likely am not interested in wasting my time vetting out your resume. Meanwhile, I'm not sure if I see tons of benefit in keeping a personal website up to date. Designs go out of style so quickly, one would have to re-do their site every 2-3 years or get caught looking stale. It's not worth the effort to a hardcore coder when there's more "fun" projects to play with. Most great coders don't want to whore themselves. Your comment is a very good one... in 2009.