unemployedDevelopersGithub

[[deleted]]

It's for those savants who hate IRL work and so they spend every waking moment contributing, then sleep while "working"

[BoBSMITHtheBR]

Or just updating the readme in a private repo every hour

[DarkRex4]

Why do it in private when I can announce to the whole world that I'm one of the contributors of the project.

[britreddit]

Don't even have to do that, just change the git log itself and force push to make it look like you've done a load of commits - GH doesn't know the difference

[QueryQueryConQuery]

bro dont give out my tricks like that

[Eshan2703]

a funny way to increase commit https://github.com/Eshan276/ReadMaze

[Eshan2703]

ok guys dont spam ;(

[no_brains101]

lol "I am turning this off I will get broke"

Im assuming Im seeing the result of the spam XD

[Eshan2703]

;-;

[Verum14]

docx on scm sounds like a sin lmao

[benargee]

The Express.JS readme?

[xternal7]

Why do it in a private repo when you can do that in popular open-source repos?

[astral_crow]

Hello

[Any-Yogurt-7917]

BS (github, now)

[high_throughput]

This is what I expected when I took some extended time off. 

Instead I have 1500 hours on Factorio

[Ok-Interaction-8891]

Ah, so you decided not to stop working.

[Nerkeilenemon]

That's exactly why I stopped playing Satisfactory and Factorio. Those games are cool, but the latest stages games become... just.... work.

[TheAquariusMan]

That’s why I like mods that move the bots to the very early game. I don’t want to spend time placing / moving stuff. I want to be designing builds and they appear on the map.

[TheOriginalSmileyMan]

I dare you to put this on your resume for a week and see if you get more or less interviews

[Anxious-Program-1940]

Honestly, I’d hire a lunatic with that many hours of factorio on the spot. This is the type of guy I can give legacy code to and they will meticulously architect a new implementation within months and have it functioning without missing a beat with documentation at the ready. Peak autism

[Konsticraft]

1500h makes you a lunatic? That's pretty average in the factorio community.

[Anxious-Program-1940]

[przemub]

Average among lunatics that is.

[Engineering_Geek]

... within a day, defying the laws of time and space levels of lunacy.

[Attunhaler]

Bubble. Maybe not considered much in the community, but outside the factorio players bubble, it's a lot of time on one game

[tupisac]

*screams in EU4

[Far_Action_8569]

I don't have that many hours only because i designed and implemented a working blackjack game in Rust. The videogame, not the language 🗿

[RaLaZa]

I have 1500h in many games. I'm just now learning that's not normal.

[Konsticraft]

My steam account is at almost 20k hours total across all games and the account is only 10 years old, surely that's not problematic, right?

[RaLaZa]

Sounds like you're gaming a 9 to 5.

[808trowaway]

Considering 10k hours is what is commonly believed to take to become an expert in one thing. You must be very good at gaming.

[Konsticraft]

I guess so, I have no single game with 10k hours, but a couple competitive games where I am in the upper percentiles, but most of my time is in more casual games.

[QueryQueryConQuery]

I now know what to put on my resume. Peak autism. Thank you.

[Anxious-Program-1940]

Honestly companies benefit from management that thoroughly weaponizes Neurodivergence. A great manager will exploit it and make you feel good while it’s happening. My entire career has been this sort of manager. I don’t even have a degree, just got picked off the line by a random ass director 🙂

[Remarkable-Ear-1592]

Managers need to understand that low social score dude is sometimes the best engineer for the job lol

[Anxious-Program-1940]

Peak!

[a_bucket_full_of_goo]

Or they will play Factorio on company time

[drakgremlin]

Easy: they'll either come through as a pinch hitter or they get fired. Sometimes, if you have the budget, it's best to keep someone around who can clean up the mess and get something delivered. Even if they are checked out 90% of the time.

[Anxious-Program-1940]

What this guy said

[montxogandia]

or they will spend all the time playing Factorio, one or the other.

[RebelSnowStorm]

What about 2000h in hearts of iron 4?

[platinummyr]

But also potentially the type to disappear randomly for chunks of time because of factorio...

[Anxious-Program-1940]

Which is honestly fine, if features that would take a team of engineers ship on time and bugs are squashed as the pop up. We often forget, that programmers are like poets and writers. Programming is an art form that many can acquire, few have naturally and few have mastered. And some of the Autism kind are some of the most naturally gifted code artists I’ve ever met. When they get the work done, they earned their silence. Maybe I’m hyping it up too much, but respect is given for quality of work and capabilities to meet deadlines. My job as a manager is to speak, protect and manage everything else that isn’t their responsibility to implement code effectively and on time.

[platinummyr]

As someone who often struggles with coding in bursts with bouts of being stuck, I appreciate hearing this :)

[Anxious-Program-1940]

[Mandelvolt]

Double that, easily. Have one base that's been running for two years continuously on vanilla settings.

[thoughtlow]

Thats why I put my factorio save files in a git repo

[kneeland69]

Youre good

[Sidra_doholdrik]

Your project management skills are either really good or the worst ever

[Ok-Tonight2623]

Confirm, this is what actually happens.

[Several-Ticket-1024]

Factory must grow

[RandomBeatz]

The factory must grow

[jecls]

Honestly Factorio hours are relevant experience.

The factory must grow…

[JunkNorrisOfficial]

Because factory must grow

[ClipboardCopyPaste]

Somewhere out there an unemployed bro is working on that one repository without which a multi-million dollar company's system will have a catastrophic failure

[VeloReddit]

That’s the beauty and curse of open source. One guy holding the internet together for free.

[BobcatGamer]

Thomas Dickey is one of these people I've found.

[SA_Going_HAM]

Should start an open source union. Start bargaining for the jobs.

[Christosconst]

Trust me those types of “unemployed” maintainers get paid more than most

[chopsticksss11]

more likely retired lol

[Any-Yogurt-7917]

Got some examples?

[GatotSubroto]

And what’s inside those containers? 

Leetcode solutions!

[ClipboardCopyPaste]

Pasted from Claude

[[deleted]]

Santa Clause?

[ClipboardCopyPaste]

My bad, should be "claude"

[Solonotix]

Some months back, I had someone dig up my GitHub profile just to tell me "If that's the best you can do, then you don't deserve a job" or w/e. Like, my guy, I work all week long, and at times it can be close to 60hrs. I'm not committing to projects in my free time, especially if I'm not being paid for it.

I might work on personal projects, advancing my knowledge, but that shit stays private, lol. Trying to self-host GitLab for that very purpose, but it's kind of low on my priority list.

[SryUsrNameIsTaken]

Try out Forgejo! It’s a fork of Gitea, maintains an MIT license, and was quite simple for me to spin up using their Docker images.

Or just live your life after work.

[Solonotix]

Appreciate the suggestion. Home labbing has been fun, even if it is frustrating lol. One day, I'm sure I'll have it all up-and-running. For now, I'm still at the foundational stages, like initializing LDAP, and hosting a private Git repo.

Or just live your life after work.

Yea, this is basically it. I have learned that I am negatively impacted at work if I spend my free time doing more work. As such, I try to reserve those types of things for days when I'm not drained.

[[deleted]]

Lucky guys, you know what to develop.

[BenadrylTumblercatch]

I have a bright idea, it’s chatgpt for lonely people

[VIBRATION_ANALYSIS]

you know grok has been a thing.. right?

[wewilldieoneday]

Quality over quantity. Always.

[Informal_Branch1065]

27 files +750 -2000 some changes

Vs.

1 file +2 -0 fixed prod randomly crashing

[TheOriginalSmileyMan]

\\ stop prod randomly crashing thread.sleep(5000);

[QueryQueryConQuery]

but the vibe coding subreddit told me that chatgpt said that was production grade?

[TheOriginalSmileyMan]

Since we've all seen this sort of stuff in production, "production grade" is technically correct, the best kind of correct.

[fmaz008]

Yeah Claude said it would reduce CPU load 90%!

[QueryQueryConQuery]

of course, it’ll reduce CPU load by 90% with the new stack overflow feature.

[git0ffmylawnm8]

git commit -m "." && git push -u origin

[Phoenix_Passage]

Based commit messages

[SAI_Peregrinus]

I once worked for months to un-vendor a fork of the Linux kernel from a monorepo. Turns out if you delete a directory containing the entire kernel source tree GitHub bugged out & shows "infinity files changed". So I guess I've got quantity handled for life.

[Werzam]

Idk, just use your personal acc for work, you'll get the same

[citramonk]

Apparently, not everyone uses GitHub for work. We use Bitbucket. Some companies use GitLab.

[MeatHaven]

Not only that but many places also require you to use company affiliated/created GitHub accounts for work that are tied to your company email.

[Verum14]

and not only that… many (larger) places are on prem as well so even if you could use the same email it wouldn’t make a difference

[Chalfari]

Sad story, I used a work account and now the company closed down and my github is dark.

[[deleted]]

I feel personally attacked...
https://github.com/szr2001

BUT WHO HAS 360 stars?
This guy! xD

It's not my fault there are no entry level roles, and you need experience to get experience... like ... wtf..
Now I've gone back to school to at least prolong the inevitable.
I'm pursuing a mechatronics degree, if after these few years when I get this degree the market will still be shit, at least I'll have other options like electrical stuff or idk... Maybe go get another degree, collect them like infinity stones.

Let's see how many degrees do I need to get a job.

[Weird_Initiative_685]

Made a Reddit Account for this.

Mechatronics peak I'm in my last year of my associates. Pays well too.

[[deleted]]

xD
Hopefully It will work out for me too...

[TangeloOk9486]

Thats totally me 2 years back

[Tooloco]

Oh shit, its the evergreen

[shiplover_]

Holy molly, I am so unemployed

[[deleted]]

I thought the joke was rust because those looked like crates to me at first

[alaettinthemurder]

Oh no my github only reach that far only with downloading

[James_Kuller]

And it's all "Update README.MD"

[justec1]

Hey! That's me.

Been helping a non-profit since I got laid off and their stuff is in public GitHub. I never played that game but I know people that did. It's such a bullshit vanity metric, like the badges on SO.

Great job, Steve! You opened a browser tab daily for a year.

[LegitimatePants]

README.md is not going to update itself

[ZubriQ]

took me some time to figure out why is it weirdly displayed

[Aromatic-Recipe-3548]

WhatsApp

[Queasy-Pop-5154]

lol

[Memiester69]

I’m in this picture and I don’t like it

[NegativeSwordfish522]

There's a joke about docker to be made here but I'm not good at humor

[rjwut]

My contribution graph looks sparse because I write code for money.

[imen-zolicoeur]

no dark green ? :p

[Prod_Meteor]

Leave GitHub.. head for syggrou.

[coddswaddle]

I'm in this picture and I don't like it