Comment by johnfn

Literally no one reads your code. No one! Not other engineers, not annoyed people on HN, not even people for whom it would probably be a pretty good idea. There is a common misconception that published code can build your portfolio; this is basically entirely false. I've had conversations like this:

Recruiter: "We want you to do a take home so we can get a sense of how well you can code."

Me: "I have a repo on Github with 10M downloads, 10k stars, and about 50k lines of my own code. Would that be useful to make an assessment?"

Recruiter: "Haha, no. Please do this take home that has you render a few divs in a tedious way."

So if people who are even financially incentivized to read your code don't do it, I'd say that the chances of anyone reading your code is virtually nil.