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Don't recall the source, but it has stuck with me since my assembler days...

There are only 10 types of people in this world. Those who understand binary and those who don't.

I do not have a personal site. I've been in the industry software industry 20+ yrs primarily in the Microsoft ecosystem, but not exclusively.

"Impact your career" can involved many things, but I'm reading your question as two-fold: 1) Getting a new job at a new company 2) Moving up at an existing company

For 1, the goal is to show someone that doesn't know you, what your capabilities are, and what you can bring to the table - that can be through various ways, people who say you must have a personal site are really just saying that a personal site is your portfolio that you can show people, but github and others are suitable as well. Here you've got to be able to demonstrate your capabilities - it is easier with a site, or some other publicly accessible form of portfolio (github, etc).

For 2, it is about growing yourself technically and politically and your internally executed work IS your portfolio. Succeed on your executed work and challenge yourself by taking on additional responsibilities where able and the rest will follow. YOU are always your best portfolio.

HTH

dark theme + line numbers for all file types

Yup

totally agree - the experience, knowledge and growth that comes with the "hobbies" should be a fair amount of reward as is; however, if you are trying to "product-ize" one of your "hobbies" then that is something totally different - you need laser focus for that to "complete" one of these...

I'd say it depends on the industry. Startups? probably a red flag. Airline industry, Government agencies? probably not.

I find that NOT turning on the TV and NOT cracking open a beer helps me to focus on the side project. ymmv

Does Nectome sell gift cards yet?

I can say that 85% of my wife's night shirts are from the tech confs, meets that I go to! Dropbox never looked so good... Ha

Agreed. I've always said "Jay-Sohn" as well; although I recently saw a job description that was looking for "2+ years of Jason experience"... too bad my name isn't Jason :)

Ok so it looks great in Chrome, but I fired it up in IE 10 and the first 2 pages "look" blank, if you didn't know to scroll down you'd think the page was blank.

A template to be used for a landing page should be able to properly render in browsers. Just sayin...