Self proclaimed GitHub star. But still only 5000 followers and projects max out at 8000 stars.
I don’t know what I had expected but I think it was bigger numbers than that.
I don’t know this user and won’t assume his intentions, but I can see how having “I’m a GitHub star [star emoji]” as the first sentence on the profile is doing him a disservice: it makes it seem like it’s the most impressive thing he’s achieved and diminishes everything else.
Also, I meant in the sense that you call someone “mister McSmug” and they reply almost angrily with “doctor McSmug”.
I've never seen his github account before but I expect that people following him there are doing so because of the content he's putting out. His blog has been on the HN Frontpage many times and has a book about developer career building.
My github account isn't as pimped out as his, but marketing yourself isn't toxic, it's smart.
i honestly dont even view my github readme as "marketing yourself". most pple dont even go to an individual's profile in the first place, but if you do its kinda like a cute little myspace thing where you can let people know you as a human being and be a little quirky. i certainly dont hold myself out as an authority on writing the best software in the world and hey if 40k stars on the react-typescript stuff doesnt count i'm alright with that
Thank you for the work you do and for how much you have contributed to people learning over the years. <3
In other words: it makes zero difference to me what you write in your bio though I can see how its previous wording took away from what’s important. I was conveying to the parent comment my understanding of the comment they were replying to.
Apologies for making you feel judged, that was not the point. Quite the contrary: I wanted to underline that by not knowing your intentions it does not make sense to criticise how you choose to present yourself.