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Linkdin is effectively a personal website generator with social features. Your profile page is the important part, but only if you’re optimizing for “searchability” / random discovery. If you’re doing that, then you’re competing with everyone else who is also doing that.
A personal website is fine; better even. It’s a project all on its own, and you can do cool stuff with it. Show off your projects on it. You can host your code on any platform that supports git, but you’ll get bonus points for using a self-hosted instance.
I have a linkdin account only to reserve my name and link to my website.
Ah, this is very encouraging. I've put a good effort into making a minimal, but aesthetically pleasing website that showcases links to the startup's website, a nonprofit Coding role I briefly held, as well as my portfolio projects. I've also put the effort into writing extensive (sometimes quite lengthy) blog posts directly on my site covering various beginner developer topics.
This is quite interesting. I've been investigating hosting my own Gitea instance on a Digital Ocean or Linode VPS for a while now, but wondered if it would be worthwhile from a career perspective.
What gives me pause is that self hosting my projects like this may make my projects less discoverable on search engines. Could you elaborate on why you (and potential employers) would assign "bonus points" for this?
Absolutely - self-hosting something like that is in and of itself a project!
I wouldn’t worry about discoverability - you want to hunt for the job you want, not necessarily wait to be discovered. Once you have a position in your sights, you get to point at your site / projects / git host via everything - your cover letter, resume, business cards, etc.
Having a blog is fantastic. You get to showcase your interests and skills in whatever areas you want, and a good combination of technical capability and enthusiasm will get you in most doors easily.