General question about profiles on Github
Is it common for people to have a personal Github and one that they use to show employers?
I’m just starting out with it and I’m not that familiar with it. I just learned that you should use a GitHub account to help you with professional opportunities. Which is why it’s said to be a good thing to use your real name and your picture. However, I see quite a bit of GitHub accounts with profile pictures that aren’t actual people and anonymous usernames
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I mean its the internet so people will do what they want 😄
There is no reason you can't have two but you can also set private repos so
I would just have your public facing one and if you don't want to have a public repo make it private
personally, ive always used a personal and a work github account
this way, if you make a mistake, you cant be accused of leaking company code
and everything is very well separated
yea I don't see the point in having two unless you needed to have a brand or yea that
i think it is worth it just for the ease of mind
also, it's free
but that is for work
yes
I wouldn't make two personal ones
just to have all repos private on one and public other
yeah, for personal use, it doesnt make sense
when you can just do that per repo
yea
unless it is s project you dont want to have associated with you
for example, hacking tools for offline games
cheats for offline games
things like that
(i specify "offline" because any of those for online games is very very bad)
or any super embarassing project you dont want others to see (like a very very ugly project)
yea that would be a good reason
you can put it in private, but, you know how things go
you can make your personal be the one you show employees and the "shame" one be the one you never share with anyone ever
and in that personal one, you show your best projects and show how you do meaningful contributions to the open-source community
(adding "gimme de job plox" on a readme file is not a meaningful contribution)
This is helpful. I didn’t have much context for this area starting out thank you this makes sense
Yea and about others profiles... I've seen it all... fake, lazy, overt, full os maintainers... like don't do what others do ... do what you need to do.
scammers... watch out for those llamas
Like its just a website that hosts git so... internet is full of all types
GitLab is another popular one
exactly, just do your thing
if you think 2 profiles is beneficial, to keep your main profile clean, then go for it
i would advise to still add some less-finished projects too, as those show how you think about things and go for implementing it
It's a very useful to create an organization you are a part of and administer. I've got @dysbulic & The Department of Happiness.
Orgs are really useful for collaborations.
Also, in this day & age, I'd also create a Discord server & link that in the personalization of your organization.
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