[Insanity]

That might depend on the person doing the interview, and perhaps how you put it on your CV. If you list some hobbies on your CV, and you put something akin to "Maintaining youtube channel" or "Writing tutorials" then I would know that you seem to have some passion for the field outside of work.

I am not saying that everyone _needs_ to do something related to programming in their free time, after all it is their choice if they do or not and they can be great engineers without doing so. Yet for me, it shows at least an interest or a passion.

Furthermore what you are doing is communicating ideas about software development. That's a plus in my book as well, as communicating ideas clearly is important. It'd also show you are willing to teach coworkers in a positive way.

But it might depend on the interviewer.

[thewhitetulip]

Thank you for your thoughts! I agree that more than what we do, it matters how we represent them.