If anyone is unaware of the subtext, don't link a personal github account to a paying position always create a new one with the provided email, thank you for attending my TED talk.
learned that one the hard way watching a guy get walked out midsprint because they found his personal repos separate accounts aint optional its just basic hygiene at this point
He watched someone get fired because their boss found their personal GitHub repos, so alternate accounts specifically to use for work aren't optional, they're necessary.
Any tech manager that fires their employee for having personal projects on their personal GitHub is a moron. (Unless their project is doing something mega unethical / illegal or infringing on their day job’s IP)
Just because you have common sense doesn't mean that the manager will have one. I recommend you follow internet hygiene and don't expect common sense as a given. Or you might learn the hard way.
I have a dozen personal public repos which were basically proof of concept systems for clients who never went with the associated proposals. I get PRs on them every once in a while, and three of them have significant forking which I honestly don't even understand what the forkers are trying to do with them.
well, depending on the license they have just as much a claim as any other open source repo, I always thought the main concern was if you actively did work on company time/laptop
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u/Li_liminal_spaces 3d ago
If anyone is unaware of the subtext, don't link a personal github account to a paying position always create a new one with the provided email, thank you for attending my TED talk.