This is very interesting 🤔
In my opinion, the activity graph is only a indicator of the interest of a person in GitHub, not about the quality of his/her contributions. When I want to see if someone makes interesting contributions I usually navigate through the repos. I think that's what a recruiter would do too.
However, this is a fantastic demonstration!
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Thank you 🙏
Absolutely! This should be the way to go and I hope that more and more people are actually doing it. Though it could be tricky as your contributions could be private and still show in your activity graph.
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Developer Advocate at Materialize | Community Manager at DigitalOcean | Co-Founder at DevDojo
And also it doesn't really tell you much, I've been working as a part-time developer between 2012-2016 and full time since then, if you check my graph you would see a rather sparse graph.
Does that mean I'm not coding enough? Or that I just do fewer commits for each feature?
One developer that has tons of small commits on a PR against one that squashes them, how would they match against?
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This is very interesting 🤔
In my opinion, the activity graph is only a indicator of the interest of a person in GitHub, not about the quality of his/her contributions. When I want to see if someone makes interesting contributions I usually navigate through the repos. I think that's what a recruiter would do too.
However, this is a fantastic demonstration!
Thank you 🙏
Absolutely! This should be the way to go and I hope that more and more people are actually doing it. Though it could be tricky as your contributions could be private and still show in your activity graph.
A good recruiter would, but there are many recruiters who have only a super basic understanding of GitHub, or how software in general works.
The repos that you have pinned are probably the most important part of your profile from a hiring perspective.
Very good point!
That makes sense, I hadn't thought of it!
And also it doesn't really tell you much, I've been working as a part-time developer between 2012-2016 and full time since then, if you check my graph you would see a rather sparse graph.
Does that mean I'm not coding enough? Or that I just do fewer commits for each feature?
One developer that has tons of small commits on a PR against one that squashes them, how would they match against?