Does anyone have any tips or experience about how to discuss non-professional coding projects?

Asta [AMP]

Does anyone have any tips or experience about how to discuss non-professional coding projects? I've been doing a lot of project side work in #rust over the last few months that has absolutely improved my capacity to program with it to where I'd feel comfortable working on it in a professional context. However, I don't have a published project or crate in it or anything so I don't necessarily want to link the project without having some idea of whether that's a good idea or not.

Otherwise I just have "Rust" on my CV but no specific Rust projects (there's examples of the other languages I can program in there).

Thank you! Boosts totally okay and appreciated.

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Mirek Długosz 🕸️:python:🐛

@aud
Is there a reason you can’t publish at least one of these projects on GitHub (or other place to store source code)?

If these projects are very NSFW, then I guess one option is to come up with rather boring project idea and write and publish that, just to show that you are indeed skilled.

PRs to open source projects may show off skill to similar extent as your own projects, although they may be harder to link to.

Sebastian Lauwers

@aud Maybe a simple mention of how many LOCs or how often you write in the language? Your “hook” is to get into an interview room. There you can start discussing the how/why/when.

If I’m looking for a Rust dev, I’d much rather talk to someone who writes Rust daily for fun than someone who had one (professional) Rust project in 2019.

Asta [AMP]

@[email protected] oh, well, they actually are up on codeberg and available to browse! I guess that is indeed publishing, although it's not "announced" in any formal specific way.

So that is definitely something. I wonder if I should link it, even if it is heavily-in-progress work, then.

Asta [AMP]

@[email protected] This is both A, a couple of really excellent points, and B, a really, really good idea. Zero-ing in one some... metric or something that can speak to some extent about what I can do. LOC is certainly an imperfect metric but it's definitely better than literally nothing. And we're not talking LOC as a quarterly performance metric: we're just saying "hey, this is a thing I can do".

Thank you!