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skhg··on Reading Candidates’ GitHub Profiles
GitHub is there so you can present your code to the world in an organised, documented, and personalised way. Part of that includes a short bio and profile pic. I don’t expect a professionally framed headshot with nice lighting, just upload something that’s not the default, to set yourself slightly apart from the crowd.
skhg··on Reading Candidates’ GitHub Profiles
Hobby projects can show a diversity of interests that might be hard to compress into a short CV.
skhg··on Reading Candidates’ GitHub Profiles
It’s not unreasonable to expect a candidate to groom their public profile before using it as part of a job application. If they have some bad, old code they’re not proud of, why not make it private temporarily?
skhg··on Reading Candidates’ GitHub Profiles
If it’s listed on your CV, then that’s for me to judge.
skhg··on Listen to Wikipedia
Great project. I made a fork of this recently that starts in full-screen mode: http://skhg.github.io/listen-to-wikipedia/?fullscreen for ambient sound on our TV

Repo at https://github.com/skhg/listen-to-wikipedia

skhg··on 2012: The year Irish newspapers tried to destroy the web
Good luck to them... This was already tried in belgium http://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2011/07/google-versus-bel... years ago
skhg··on 2012: The year Irish newspapers tried to destroy the web
We have extremely strict libel legislation, and an independent press ombudsman. State funding is not a factor in the finances of the major papers who pushed for the measures mentioned in this article