It doesn’t take much public creativity to stand out as a job candidate
Unlike another top poster, this doesn&#x27;t ring true for me.<p>I have a blog with 170-ish posts. About half are technical. Three or four have gone viral on HN.<p>The other half are personal, but I live in a place where people generally share the same values, so those other posts shouldn&#x27;t be a problem.<p>I&#x27;ve got a personal project. It&#x27;s used in production and ships as part of the base install with FreeBSD and Mac OSX.<p>It demonstrates high proficiency with C. It demonstrates careful work with every function documented in Doxygen comments and a development manual entirely designed to raise the bus factor to infinity. It also shows I&#x27;ve got fuzzing chops.<p>I have other code. It&#x27;s not complete, but I&#x27;ve got hundreds or thousands of hours in it, and it&#x27;s to the same quality.<p>And I can&#x27;t get a job.