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by inetknght 1519 days ago
> README. Does it exist? GitHub pushes you really hard to add one, if you're lacking even the default one, you clearly don't understand how GH works.

Yes GitHub pushes you really hard to add one. But I disagree that not having one on a personal project means you don't understand how GitHub works. I don't need (or really even want) a README for a personal project. It detracts from writing code. If I neglect the personal project for months or years and come back to it then I'm not going to give a flying crap about the README anyway: I will have come back to it specifically to look at the code. Whether that's because I had a new/better idea or wanted to reminisce or maybe to copy/paste some idea from it.

All of the rest of your points are good though.

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I mostly interact with github via a standard git cli, which does NOT bug me about it.
Which is something I would think someone who assesses people based on how much they know Github.....should probably know

How ironic ;)