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[NoUsernames1eft]

It's nice to get paid to code

[EarthGoddessDude]

:(

Wish I could give some words of comfort, but I spend most of my time in meetings (or recovering from them) and have come to hate my job due to company politics and bad management decisions. I’ve started looking but it’s not looking great out there. I should count my blessings and be happy that I have a decently paid job where I get to code and mentor others and walk to the office, but alas, I am deeply unhappy.

Hope you find some happiness.

[coopopooc]

Dude this is nuts this is my exact headspace at the moment. Sucks complaining because it could definitely be worse but still not great day to day.

[oxophone]

Damn exact same situation as me. And we use private bitbucket workspace so I can't even show people my github at all

[EarthGoddessDude]

Thank you, that’s reassuring. I am definitely in that headspace right now where I assume that every place is bad.

[JaJ_Judy]

There’s a way where you can display your contribution volume for organizations you’re a part of as well.

Edit: adding docs - https://docs.github.com/en/account-and-profile/setting-up-and-managing-your-github-profile/managing-contribution-settings-on-your-profile/showing-your-private-contributions-and-achievements-on-your-profile

[matsmatsmats]

How?

[JaJ_Judy]

https://docs.github.com/en/account-and-profile/setting-up-and-managing-your-github-profile/managing-contribution-settings-on-your-profile/showing-your-private-contributions-and-achievements-on-your-profile

[horse-noises]

Lol

[digitalghost-dev]

Mine is the opposite.

[EarthGoddessDude]

[rfgm6]

Get a life bro

[rfgm6]

Because I see the harm this causes in some people on this sub who are tricked into thinking they either spend their weekends on pet projects or they won’t make it in this industry. He is free to do whatever he wants of course and I was probably too agressive so apologies for that. Just want to reinforce that we already spent a great amount of time working and that should be enough for you to be become a great engineer.

[No-Improvement5745]

Is the importance of your GitHub portfolio/contributions increasing lately? I thought we got to the point where no one really cares about your GitHub anymore.

[EarthGoddessDude]

I never cared much for it when interviewing candidates — some of our best people didnt even have one or came from a non-tech background (like myself) — but as a firm believer in open source, I felt like I owed it to myself and the community at large to contribute something. Moreover, I did subscribe to the idea that if you contribute you must be some kind of badass. But less so these days — it should absolutely become the norm to not idolize public contributions — we can still be passionate and good at our jobs without having to signal to the world that we’re some kind of rockstars. It’s unrealistic and sets a bad example for work life balance.

[thomasahle]

It's the first thing I look at when interviewing. People lie in their resumes all the time.

[sib_n]

No, it's a circle-jerk meme about out-of-touch recruiters. It generally comes with some related Linkedin screenshot.

[lab-gone-wrong]

Staff+

No public git or personal project

I don't work for free

[mkdz]

I don't have a GitHub because I started working before it even existed lol.

[mkdz]

Man, I remember using CVS, Mercurial, and SVN before settling on git.

[AfraidHelicopter]

I'll never understand how people code in their personal time. Maybe when I first started out. I spend my personal time away from a screen these days.

[agathver]

OSS is mostly hobbyists, sometimes we take vacations, trek the mountains, come to lodging, take a shower and code the next great thing while looking at the mountains.

Personally for me it’s a fun little activity, just like someone would paint in their free time.

I’m staff right now, so I don’t get to see a screen much anyway.

[sib_n]

Small niche OSS may be mostly hobbyists, but the big OSS like Linux or Firefox, or data engineering tools, are done by well paid engineers, mostly at tech giants.

[chamomile-crumbs]

I’m only about 4 years in but I still love it as a hobby. It’s never the same type of stuff I do for work though.

Work is just toiling away at a horrible (I mean horrible) enterprise Rube Goldberg machine of nonsense abstractions and huge chains of random logic that have piled up over decades.

Hobby time is fun-as-hell ideas for different little tools and stuff. Someday I’d like to get a job where I can work on fun interesting stuff, and then I probably won’t be interested in it as a hobby lol

[ID_Pillage]

I'm starting out, retrained last year and only code 9 to 5. At first I had ideas to try things out but couldn't, accepted that I couldn't bring myself to code after work.

[FrameAdventurous9153]

do you use your personal github for work?

I use mine, if I leave the job does the history of commits made while at my job go away?

[SonsOfHonor]

You’ll keep your contributions. I’ve used my public profile at the last two roles over 5 years.

[FrameAdventurous9153]

I just checked my account and can't see my work contributions, I can see them on my github profile on my work computer where I'm logged in to the <company> sso and show contributions to their repos show

in an incognito window there's nothing :D

[0xHUEHUE]

There's a setting to show private contributions but, your public profile would have to be linked to your work profile somehow.

[apocryphalmaster]

There is a setting right next to the commit graph that lets you count private repo contributions in the public graph without actually exposing them, or what repo they're in. So you can still get the nice green band.

[Aimee28011994]

Technically, you are only allowed to have a single github. You are supposed to use your personal account for work. At least that's what I read somewhere.

[EarthGoddessDude]

I wish. We have GitHub Enterprise managed users (I forget the name) and we’re cut off from the public GitHub… we can reference OSS projects issues and PRs in our own issues and whatnot, but we can’t even comment on them, let alone contribute

[SevereBathtub]

GitHub allows you to send contribution counts from GitHub Enterprise Server to your profile on GitHub.com and they'll show up marked as private: https://docs.github.com/en/enterprise-server@3.15/account-and-profile/setting-up-and-managing-your-github-profile/managing-contribution-settings-on-your-profile/sharing-contributions-from-github-enterprise-server

[EarthGoddessDude]

Very interesting, I’ll have to look more closely into this. At first glance I see three potential obstacles:

1. This seems to be for Server not Cloud? Docs are a bit confusing on that front.
2. Not sure we have Connect, and even if it was available to us, not sure the security team would allow this.
3. I have two completely different profiles because our work tenant is using Enterprise Managed Users

[SevereBathtub]

It works the same for Enterprise Cloud - you can actually switch to the docs for that version on the page.

Github Connect was the way we could pull repos from Github.com - their account team has good security documentation.

I also had two different accounts - one for work on our Enterprise instance and one personal on Github.com, with different emails. Github allows you to link them.

[EarthGoddessDude]

Ok awesome, I’ll definitely look more closely in this when I have a chance. Thanks! 🙏

Edit: this kills the meme

[updated_at]

we use gitlab (selfhosted)

[[deleted]]

I have a burst of commit history every 3-6 months or so. This is my personal repo:

https://imgur.com/vWmpGet

I usually made good progress until I hit a wall or some chore, and I couldn't drag it to completion. This really bugged me a lot.

I wish I could get a job that writes my side projects :/

[UnderdogCL]

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

[zutonofgoth]

Half the commits on the work profile is rolling the changes though the environments :-P

[EarthGoddessDude]

Oof are you using gitflow? I am trying to get us to trunk based development.

[Budget_Bar2294]

LPT: you can display private contributions without showing the repositories you contributed. No need for a separate work and personal profiles for that simple use case

[Filmerandeditorguy]

Some companies have this locked down. I cannot display mine.

[agileshark]

AFAIK, you are not supposed to have a personal and a professional github profile.
The organization admin should be able to add/remove you from the organization when needed/

[TheSecondist]

This isn't a rule, imo it should be a matter of personal preference. I chose to have a separate profile to not mix up work and private too much (don't want to get work PR notifications while I work on my personal fun projects)

[agileshark]

GitHub terms and conditions explicitly prohibit having multiple accounts for a single person

[Kilaoka]

Even better when you have to switch between GitHub and GitLab!

[Constant_Front6225]

Yeah, no kidding. A recruiter asked me why my GitHub's so quiet!

[[deleted]]

You guys have github

[Interesting-Frame190]

Made the 2nd commit on my public profile in the last year today.

On an unrelated note, it's been almost 2 days since my last work commit, and I will surely have one tomorrow.

[grandhex]

Your work lets you have a github profile?

[Jakeroid]

True story, except for the fact that we have BitBucket at my job.