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Ask HN: I want my Github to be my resume, but...

7 pointsmel_kaye5 comments

The following question draws its inspiration from the recent HN submission: `Github is my resume'.

I want nothing more than to establish some interesting (hopefully, successful) FOSS projects, and because I feel programming is the most enjoyable of hobbies, I'm excited to use my free time to this end, but _I_have_no_itches_to_scratch_.

I can't think of anything to add to- or modify in my computing environment(s).

What should I do?

I've felt like an aspiring author with writer's block for the past ~4 years and I'm starting to hate myself for it.

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What can you do?

What do you want to do?

I made http://jekyllbootstrap.com because I decided one day I needed and wanted to make myself a blog that was not Wordpress.

All my code is Open Source on Github, I just code all day everyday and throw it up on GitHub.

I would be interested in helping you along because I think it is very rewarding to contribute to Open Source.

So if you will tell me what you are interested in doing as well as what you want to do. For example: web app? front end, backend? backbone? redis? twitter API, documentation generation, good writer? good teacher?

There's something out there, you just need to make small steps. Also what's your github username?

> So if you will tell me what you are interested in doing as well as what you want to do. For example: web app? front end, backend? backbone? redis? twitter API, documentation generation, good writer? good teacher?

I'm interested in low-level programming, such as compilers/PLs, OS kernels, and GCs. I think I'd also enjoy revitalizing legacy Unix applications, such as Bill Joy's vi from 4.x BSD.

Programming Languages (from most familiar to least familiar):

  C (ANSI C89/ISO C90)
  Java (1.5/5)
  Perl (~5.8)
  Scheme (R5RS)

> There's something out there, you just need to make small steps. Also what's your github username?

I haven't yet signed-up for an account, but I think I'll go with Bitbucket, as I'm more familiar with Mercurial than I am with Git.

I run an open source project called mRemoteNG. We can use all the help we can get. As far as I know, there's no place to match projects needing help with people looking to help projects.

Please put your project on http://swym.me. I'm working towards matching projects and people with the right skills.

Awesome!

http://swym.me/projects/163

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