Ask HN: What do put on your public GitHub?

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1 points by kryptonic 3478 days ago

I want to polish up my GitHub as I'm currently looking for work. I currently have a few Repos on my GitHub, each with a number of forks as it's quite useful generic code - which is why I put it there in the first place.

But I have a number of little apps I've built when testing new frameworks, etc. Not anything useful that would be forked, but perhaps employers would still like to see that on my GitHub? It shows I have experience with various libraries and languages at least.

Thoughts?

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dudul 3478 days ago

When I find a candidate's GH profile I just check if he/she has at least a handful of repos that are not just forks that they never touched. If I really need experience in a specific language I'll look to see if one of the repos uses it, maybe browse the code real quick to see what it's about, and that's it.

I rarely dive into the code. And, TBH, while having a GH profile will get you a few points, not having one is not eliminatory in my book.

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andrewmcwatters 3478 days ago

Forks are 99% of the time visual pollution to me, regardless of whether or not you can filter it down to sources. The more forks I see on someone's page, the more likely I've found that they probably never create anything of their own that's meaningful to share.

I really only ever care about seeing what someone has created. I don't wanna see their vast collection of forks with no contributions.

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