[bradleyjg]

As someone doing interviews, most of the github profiles I’ve seen have a bunch of forked repos with little to no added code. I don’t understand why people include a link to that.

A couple of times I’ve seen real code and it certainly didn’t hurt.

[philihp]

GitHub doesn’t do a good job with this. IMO they’re sometimes just a fork with the intention of a PR. Gotta see what they committed on top of it. When it’s nothing, I’d love to see them hidden or downplayed on the default view.

[detaro]

Some people seem to make an organization (e.g.forks-by-$username) and put their "unimportant" forks in there as a workaround.

[WorldMaker]

Also, though limited and sometimes not great, "Pinned Repositories" is an easy tool to manage (easier than bouncing things between orgs and pseudo-orgs like `$username-forks`) and typically a strong signal for "I contribute to this".

[detaro]

Right, I forgot those are a thing now (and just pinned a few repos). They certainly help a lot with that.