[colemorrison]

Aside from all of the usual hot fluff, I know some will disagree, but..

a) open source activity b) github activity c) active blogging on knowledge or topic related to dev

The reason? Remote work takes a lot of independent work (obviously). And external activity from just a job is a great signal that "hey they like this enough to do it in their own time." This indicates that their interest goes beyond just what they're getting paid for.

I know, I know. "But that's not necessarily a great indicator!"

When you're on a big time crunch to fill the role, and you have 100s of folks to look through, you've got to filter somehow. And quite frankly things like this are going to be far more proving than just "well I have nothing up because it was all company work so I can't show you" or "I have a life outside of coding" etc etc.