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by tkiolp4 998 days ago
Linking your GitHub profile works if:

- you have a very popular repo

- you have submitted a significant amount of PRs (or interesting issues) to popular repos

Your toy programming language that hasn’t received a single star nor a commit for over 2 years, your “fix typo” PRs, nor your countless forks don’t matter at all because: interviewers rarely look at them, if they do, they won’t understand it, if they understand it they will judge the smallest mistake they can find, and chances are, you yourself don’t remember a thing about your most interesting project.