The fastest-growing countries for software development, according to GitHub

Re:The fastest-growing countries for software development, a... by codingdave on Monday February 05, 2024 @08:12AM (#39260883)

I end up with a new account at every gig I work. I don't even remember them all. Maybe this is bad practice on my part, and I should be shutting them down when a job ends, but I just like the separation of personal vs. work accounts.

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Re:The fastest-growing countries for software development, a... by em-bee on Monday February 05, 2024 @09:34AM (#39261602)

i actually think it is good practice. if there is any issue with the gig, they eg try to force you to hand over access to the account, or someone is breaking into your github account then you don't expose all your other work.

there may be an issue with github TOS not allowing more than one free account per person though. i don't know if that is still the case, but then i would get a paid account for each paid gig and just add it to the bill.

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Re:The fastest-growing countries for software development, a... by progval on Monday February 05, 2024 @10:12AM (#39262013)

> there may be an issue with github TOS not allowing more than one free account per person though. i don't know if that is still the case

it is: https://docs.github.com/en/site-policy/github-terms/github-t...

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Re:The fastest-growing countries for software development, a... by mysteria on Monday February 05, 2024 @11:14AM (#39262751)

Regardless of whether they allow it or not I know a lot of people with two personal accounts. One "professional" real name account that they list on their resume and another "anonymous" account with a screen name where they work on projects they don't want to be directly attributed to.

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Re:The fastest-growing countries for software development, a... by em-bee on Monday February 05, 2024 @12:09PM (#39263578)

it is worth noting that in a conversation i had with a github employee regarding this issue that they were sympathetic to this situation. to be fair, a work account should really be paid for by the company. so i think github is going to tolerate this because they should really go after the company not individual users in that case.

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Re:The fastest-growing countries for software development, a... by astrea on Monday February 05, 2024 @09:42AM (#39261696)

This is crazy to me as someone from the private sector. You all just code where the world can see?

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Re:The fastest-growing countries for software development, a... by sumtechguy on Monday February 05, 2024 @09:48AM (#39261756)

Pretty sure you can have private repos with github?

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Re:The fastest-growing countries for software development, a... by flir on Monday February 05, 2024 @11:34AM (#39263081)

I have "me at home" and "me at work" accounts, I don't generally create a new at-work account for each job. Maybe I should.

I've been trying to do more hobbyist work in public repos. It's not like there's a Greek chorus waiting to pounce on every mistake. Truth is, nobody cares.

It's freeing, in a way, because "I'll publish it when it's done" actually means "I'll never publish it at all".

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Re:The fastest-growing countries for software development, a... by bbsz on Monday February 05, 2024 @05:10PM (#39267948)

Yeah, it's sometimes even hard to make code owners look at the complete feature PR to their codebase. There's 99.9% probability that 100% of 'geeking out' on github in public repositories will never be browsed by anybody.

I also find having some public activity on my gh to give me an ability to include it into the resume. It's a good conversation starter for many people from my experience.

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Re:The fastest-growing countries for software development, a... by dukeyukey on Monday February 05, 2024 @09:53AM (#39261806)

Private repos. Even my personal stuff is private by default.

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