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Too many Github repositories bad? (lemmy.ml)

submitted 3 weeks ago by [email protected] to c/cs_career_questions

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I'm still in my learning phase and I make many small projects as I learn. Is putting all of them on Github a good idea, if I want to put it on my resume in the future, or would having too many repositories on Github a bad thing?

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[–] MajorHavoc 11 points 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago) (1 children)

Repeating what others have said, and adding a bit:

it's fine to have a bunch of repositories.
"pin" the ones you would most like to talk about in a job interview
"archive" projects that you're completely done with
be aware that pinned repositories and whichever repository has the most recent activity is probably the ones that I - an interviewer - will pick to ask questions about.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

Do I archive every small project that I'm done with?
What would you do if I archived the repositories with the most recent activity?

[–] MajorHavoc 2 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago)

Just archive projects that you don't want to talk about. That's pretty much all "archive" is for. It's a message to the world "I don't use this anymore. Don't ask me about it."