[reificator]

And what if I’m not tracking that in such detail or even thinking about viewing it like that because it’s a side project?

My repos are hidden specifically because I do them for fun. I’d make them public if tinkering were an understood thing but its not.

> If you give me six lines written by the hand of the most honest of men, I will find something in them which will hang him.

Better to have a clear separation between work and play.

[lbotos]

> And what if I’m not tracking that in such detail or even thinking about viewing it like that because it’s a side project?

Make it private like you are doing?

If you don't want someone to perceive something about you, then don't make it public. If you do make it public and add it to a resume then don't be surprised if the person who manages programmers is interested in possibly looking at the programming that person has done.

I proposed that you can tinker in public if you make sure your tinkering won't be confused for your magnum opus. You dismissed that because a one sentence readme isn't needed on a public side project.

[reificator]

> If you do make it public and add it to a resume

I didn’t say anything about adding a link to a resume. This thread has hints of people thinking “I’ll just look up their GitHub if they don’t include it” and other threads make that explicit.

> You dismissed that because a one sentence readme isn't needed on a public side project.

I don’t think that’s what I said. I was saying that tracking all the things one might be judged for is unreasonable, not that having a readme is unreasonable.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html

> Please respond to the strongest plausible interpretation of what someone says, not a weaker one that's easier to criticize. Assume good faith.

[nicbou]

You're not the target demographic. It was shared with other programmers, not submitted for your judgement.