I've been a professional C, Perl, PHP and Python developer.
I'm an ex-sysadmin from the late 20th century.
These days I do more Javascript and CSS and whatnot, and promote UX and accessibility.
I always think it's a bad idea to use metrics like followers and view counts. How many people "liked" your post has very little bearing on how good quality it was. Having a lot of followers on one platform is often the result of bringing them over from another. That sort of thing.
If more people did this, then recruiters (or whatever the audience is) would start measuring one person against another. At that point suddenly it becomes a popularity contest and, by definition, 99% of us will lose.
I think it's good to be proud of what you've done, but to pitch it as a way you've contributed to the tech community at large, and how you have interests that persist after 1730 on a Friday afternoon.
I agree, but sadly, I hear so much that recruiters/employers are only looking at numbers in a resume :/ so I really focus on those things in my bullet points because it's impossible to add any differentiation to my accomplishments, unless I win some kind of additional award I guess? But I also link to my posts in my resume/linkedin, so it's like the numbers of likes/followers is just to catch a recruiter's attention, but hoping they will actually read my posts to assess their quality. I like what you say about how to pitch it though.
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I always think it's a bad idea to use metrics like followers and view counts. How many people "liked" your post has very little bearing on how good quality it was. Having a lot of followers on one platform is often the result of bringing them over from another. That sort of thing.
If more people did this, then recruiters (or whatever the audience is) would start measuring one person against another. At that point suddenly it becomes a popularity contest and, by definition, 99% of us will lose.
I think it's good to be proud of what you've done, but to pitch it as a way you've contributed to the tech community at large, and how you have interests that persist after 1730 on a Friday afternoon.
I agree, but sadly, I hear so much that recruiters/employers are only looking at numbers in a resume :/ so I really focus on those things in my bullet points because it's impossible to add any differentiation to my accomplishments, unless I win some kind of additional award I guess? But I also link to my posts in my resume/linkedin, so it's like the numbers of likes/followers is just to catch a recruiter's attention, but hoping they will actually read my posts to assess their quality. I like what you say about how to pitch it though.