Do you have a portfolio of work you have done? Personal website where you blog about technology? Present your small projects online so that people can see what

Do you have a portfolio of work you have done? Personal website where you blog about technology? Present your small projects online so that people can see what you have done. I don't have a git-hub page yet but a lot of people host their work there, and there are plenty of recruiters looking at peoples github pages. From what I've gathered about the programming industry, its a lot of "show us what you have done" rather than I have a degree in X(although its beneficial for companies who insist on degrees.)