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Public personal dev accounts: opinions? (programming.dev)

submitted 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago) by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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I feel like there are many devs out there who expose a lot of personal details and opinions all over the web. Maybe it's just me, but when starting out with the internet I tried my best to separate my personal details (name, age, sex, country, ethnicity, family ties, relationship status,...) from usernames in public.

Seeing devs do it willingly and voice opinions on divisive or sensitive topics kind of messes with me. Aren't y'all afraid of missing out on job opportunities if someone reads your opinions, code, or other stuff tied to your personal accounts? Or letting anybody (maybe family, friends, acquaintances, ...) in on your personal life, mindset, opinions and other personal information?

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[–] [email protected] 8 points 5 months ago (2 children)

My open source work is published under my real name because I feel like if someone is running my code, they should know who I am? Also it helps with my CV and such. I don’t go into politics or anything controversial though, keep it pretty professional.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 5 months ago (1 children)

Do you have another account for testing stuff? Experiments, one-off scripts, copy-pasted hudge-kludge, and just in general unprofessional stuff?

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[–] [email protected] 3 points 5 months ago

Not really, If it’s throwaway then I don’t publish it anywhere.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 5 months ago (2 children)

Don’t you feel people’s public profiles only contain purposely perfect code and not what they’re actually going to do on a daily basis? Why doesn’t everyone just take your code and use it as their own, for their CV, without crediting you? I don’t think I’d trust a person’s public profile as it would be way too easy to just fake it.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 5 months ago

Implying perfect code exists anywhere.

It's also trivially easy to tell if you're presenting someone else's work as your own. In an interview, you ask about their projects. Those would be very easy (and often fun) for the actual creator to answer, and not for anyone else.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 5 months ago

If people wanna steal my code they can steal it, it’s why I publish it. It’s not that good anyway

I don’t agonize over every line of public code or anything, I just make it reasonably maintainable and generalized enough to be useful to people who aren’t me. If it’s a throwaway bash script with hardcoded paths and such, why would I put it up anywhere?