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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!
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.
That makes sense, I hadn't thought of it!
Very good point!
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?
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.
Why would you judge someone from their Github activity stats? I mean, people seriously do that?
Mainly recruiters, and as @rileytomasek mentioned in the comments, a good recruiter would not do that, but there are many recruiters who have only a super basic understanding of GitHub, or how software in general works.
The Dev.to article immediately following this in the posts list is "How to get 600+ Github stars in 2 days" dev.to/revolist/hot-to-get-400-git...
That's interesting, I think it's because the two articles were posted on the same date and they have
gitin the title +githubtag.I found it hilariously funny that one article's premise is broadly be thoughtful and well considered while the other is more in the other direction of generate lots of attention. Through my career I tend to hate being the center of attention so under play my position, which doesn't work well in this industry, the past decade-ish. Sort of funny to see the various dynamics in this area of work.
This is incredible!
I didn't know it was possible!
Yes, it is crazy what a simple Bash script could do 🙌
Wow, that's super crazy. I agree with you that people should take their time when looking at someone's github account and their contributions graph.
Cheers
Yes, I absolutely agree. It is not fair on the hard-working maintainers and other people who actually do meaningful contributions.
That's cheating!! Cries in corner. 😢
It was fun to make it all green by contributing to open source and making many commits for our projects.