“GitHub is the Instagram of programming”

I definitely have an inflection point where my commits stop looking like "asdfskfedj" and turn into "Refactored DNS CNAME verification". I still see plenty of small projects with the former example.

Github, and how it is integrated into the SWE job market is interesting. Some of my best work is locked up in a private repository at a previous employer, and I'm not about to lead an open source project with 2 kids

I had a blog I ran for a while showcasing my tech projects. The main page was titled 'Failures' and it held all the attempted projects I had. Some reaching a successful deployment and the final version being posted in 'Successes'. The idea started entirely from seeing so many other blogs and social media posts with these beautifully presented codebases or finely crafted hardware. They showed the picture perfect view of those projects, but not how they got there. I wanted to do the opposite so people could actually see the faults I ran into and hopefully learn from them.

I had a lot of fun with it and learned a lot as well. There were several older projects I posted the failures of that people contacted me about to help or point out what I did wrong. Some became successes! Eventually though, I had a kid and stopped posting. The final Failure ended up being a post about the blog and a loop back to the failures section before the domain expired. I'll rebuild it someday, but I wish that kind of thing was more prominent.

just make garbage commits to a private repo to get your green squares

Much like all my online interactions now, it's so much free-er commiting/commenting under a non-identifiable pseudonym.