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My actual activity on Github

Public GitHub activity tells only part of the story when much of a developer's work happens in private repositories.

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For very understandable reasons, you can’t see what people do in their private repositories. That’s perfectly fine. But it sometimes fails to reflect how people are doing. In my particular case, I work with private repos a lot –oftentimes for extended periods–, so when you see activity like this:

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In reality it’s something like this:

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Makes you reconsider the actual weight of someone’s public activity online.

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