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by _8j50 994 days ago
I have never had a linkedin. When people ask, I point them to my github and tell them that's where I network.
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Regular reminder to keep your personal (if any meaningful activity beyond "portfolio-building") and employee (aka professional) GitHub accounts separate.

There are multiple reasons for this. Using one account for both is not desired for the worker nor the employer. Especially if you want to retain your GH profile between employments.

One reason is similar to why you shouldn't run your GSuite business from the same Google account you go on crunk YouTube rants with.

GitHub was a missed opportunity for me. After copilot, I dropped GitHub, both public and private code for serious code contribution, except for some necessary cloning or helping someone. I thought that LinkedIn is the professional forum, and I dropped every other centralized social media. This all eggs in one basket backfired for me
What's stopping you now? Hopefully you didn't delete the original account.

This sounds like the same lesson learned by the @music guy on Xitter.

I haven’t. Thank you for that.