Comment by thewebguyd

Yeah, the over valuing personal/open source projects is worrying and kind of sucks. I can use myself as an example, I don't do personal projects really, outside of work. My only actual programming work experience is during work hours for my employer. My hobbies are tech-adjacent (3D printing, some hardware/arduino stuff, photography) but they aren't "make a bunch of projects and put them on github" type hobbies. I'm certainly not going to make some BS fake CRUD or SaaS apps just to show off for potential employers, what a waste of time.

I, intentionally, have zero online presence in that regard. You won't find any public repos on my github, I don't blog, etc. Its even infected the ops/syadmin side of the field (where I work), and that's somehow even worse. Like of course I don't have a bunch of environment specific scripts on my GH, why would I? It's irrelevant to anyone that doesn't work in my department at my current employer.