How (reasonable is it to try) to start a tech career for a privacy-respecting entity?
How (reasonable is it to try) to start a tech career for a privacy-respecting entity?
I only have warehouse mgmt work experience(which means all IT responsibilities fall on me), but I can't keep away from various programming projects.
I've only dipped into the privacy-sphere of software in the last 2 years, but I've found a earnest passion in my pursuits. My obsessiveness has bled into most friends asking why I haven't pivoted my career, and I don't have a good answer other than I assumed there's no money to be made in it since I never finished my college CS degree.
I will code and continue my projects regardless, but was hoping this community could offer some advice or there experiences with similar endeavors. Thanks
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Do some writeups and post them online, get a public GitHub presence going, and link all those together from some central homepage or LinkedIn or whatever you like. Then try to land some interviews.
Privacy
Microsoft social media: GitHub & LinkedIn
Which is it?
You can't fucking promote yourself in private now can you
You can easily self-host your static landing pages. There are decentralized (& self-hostable) social media options—such as Lemmy that you are on now. There is no need to involve Microsoft, & these big places like Reddit, or whatever, someone will eventually repost your content if it is good.
Also you code forge itself doesn’t need to be social media web 2.0. You can keep these separate.
Google and Ms will index it regardless, might aswell use a platform that reqruiters actually use when looking for candidates
What does indexing have to do with actually getting to own your data & not participating in corporate-owned social media? If you want to straight hide it all, you would never post it to the internet. Most of us sought the refuge of Lemmy to avoid these platforms & know our post aren’t harvested to profit for a Lemmy IPO.
Recruiters can find you regardless, but also are not very useful for getting a job versus having a network & the cut they take means you get the shaft if hired thru them too. A platform like LinkedIn is drivel that will absolutely rot your mind so it should be an easy skip.
Well use whatever you want, the point is showing you have code out there, which is inherently NOT a very privacy-centric act.
Exactly. Our words matter & the sooner we stop using Google to mean search or MS GitHub to mean code, the sooner we can start shifting the narritive towards entities that better respect our privacy or even gasp self-hosting. Word choice for social change is just as important for spreading the message.
Can you suggest some good alternatives for github?
Cheeky answer would be: CodeForges ∩ {MS GitHub}c (anything but)
I’ve been primarily using Darcs & a little Pijul, but have been using Codeberg when I need to use Git or just self-hosting via SSH.
There are dozens, but none with the same reach of people just poking around to find projects. Some people self-host things.
What are your thoughts on Gitlab, codeberg, gitea or forgejo? I have only sampled the first 3
I will check them out. Thanks.
Solid--I like this course of action. If I have an old Github with long bouts of inactivity, would it be better to build a presence with that account or start anew?
You don't need to even make your activity public, just someplace people can see relevant stuff you've been working on.
Fork some repos, contribute some PRs to some projects you like, and generate some activity if you'd like though. People love to see that.