Self proclaimed GitHub star. But still only 5000 followers and projects max out at 8000 stars.
I don’t know what I had expected but I think it was bigger numbers than that.
I don’t know this user so I won’t make assumptions, but I can see how having “I’m a GitHub star [star emoji]” as the first sentence on the profile is probably doing him a disservice. It makes it seem like it’s the most impressive thing he’s achieved and diminishes everything else.
Also, I meant in the sense that you call someone “mister McSmug” and they reply almost angrily with “doctor McSmug”.
Thank you for the work you do and for how much you have contributed to people learning over the years. <3
In other words: it makes zero difference to me what you write in your bio but I can see how its previous wording took away from what’s important.
Apologies for making you feel judged, my comment was meant as the opposite: the point was precisely that “you do you”.
I've never seen his github account before but I expect that people following him there are doing so because of the content he's putting out. His blog has been on the HN Frontpage many times and has a book about developer career building.
My github account isn't as pimped out as his, but marketing yourself isn't toxic, it's smart.
i honestly dont even view my github readme as "marketing yourself". most pple dont even go to an individual's profile in the first place, but if you do its kinda like a cute little myspace thing where you can let people know you as a human being and be a little quirky. i certainly dont hold myself out as an authority on writing the best software in the world and hey if 40k stars on the react-typescript stuff doesnt count i'm alright with that
well idk what "github influencer" even means but fwiw i am not "people living just from github". ive never taken a dime of github sponsor money. as far as github is concerned i just put my stuff up for free and the github stars program gets me an early look into new features so i can give them feedback. (eg i helped with Hey GitHub before the big launch at GH Universe).
obviously i'll happily ambassador github to anyone who will listen but who isnt already on github here
At least that's how the 3rd party recruiter told me he found me. It's possible he was lying and thought it would impress me (it did).
My profile is more active than most, but very far from rockstar.
Had to change my Location (or some similar obvious field) in my GitHub profile to "Recruiters FUCK OFF" before they took the hint. ;)
Thankfully, GitHub introduced some other way to signal if you are/aren't interested in getting a job (toggle switch?) not long after, which seemed to work.
It seems odd to title them influencers based on that.
The book presents similar stories.
I follow him on GitHub, and pay for some of his products. I have been heavily influenced by his coding styles, and the tools he uses. His code just looks so tight and perfect. He writes his stuff so open ended and reusable that he basically writes a method once, and then reuses it across numerous projects.
Look at this tight code: https://github.com/laravel/framework/blob/10.x/src/Illuminat...
I’d say that Adam Wathan is rapidly growing his influence as well, and is probably doing alright too.