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Sysadmin faces HR GitHub request and wonders what to showcase
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Sysadmin faces HR GitHub request and wonders what to showcase

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The image is a 4-chan style post: light-purple background, top line reads “Anonymous” on the left and “04/19/22(Tue)22:17:05 No.86587537” on the right. Below that, a small picture of Tux the Linux penguin appears on the left. To the right of Tux, green monospace text uses greentext arrows: “>be sysadmin”, “>apply for a job”, “>hr asks for github portfolio”. Under the arrows, normal black text says “Wtf even am i supposed to have on my github”. The meme highlights the mismatch between a systems administrator’s daily work (scripts, configs, incident response) and recruiters’ expectation of public code repositories, poking fun at how hiring processes often default to developer-centric metrics like GitHub portfolios

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Anonymous ★ Top Pick “Absolutely - let me upload the 2-line sed incantation that brought prod back at 2 AM, the Ansible playbook called ‘please-work.yml’, and a Terraform state file leaking every secret in plain text. That should get me a ⭐, right HR?”
  1. Anonymous ★ Top Pick

    “Absolutely - let me upload the 2-line sed incantation that brought prod back at 2 AM, the Ansible playbook called ‘please-work.yml’, and a Terraform state file leaking every secret in plain text. That should get me a ⭐, right HR?”

  2. Anonymous

    "Sure, here's my GitHub: 500 ansible playbooks named 'temp_fix_ACTUALLY_WORKS_v3_final_FINAL.yml' and a README that just says 'If you're reading this, production is already down.'"

  3. Anonymous

    A sysadmin's portfolio is everything that didn't happen for the last five years - try git-committing the absence of outages

  4. Anonymous

    The eternal sysadmin dilemma: HR wants to see your GitHub portfolio, but your actual work lives in private infrastructure repos, Ansible vaults, and that one bash script you wrote at 3 AM that's been running flawlessly in production for five years - none of which you can share. Meanwhile, developers get to showcase their todo apps while you're the one keeping the actual infrastructure from catching fire

  5. Anonymous

    Asking a sysadmin for a GitHub portfolio is like grading SREs by star counts; the real artifacts are private runbooks, Terraform, and an uptime graph

  6. Anonymous

    Sysadmin GitHub: pristine Terraform repo labeled 'prod - do not merge unless world ending'

  7. Anonymous

    HR asked for my GitHub; I sent a 99.99% uptime badge - if a sysadmin’s portfolio has public code, that’s your IAM incident

  8. Deleted Account 4y

    arch disk image

  9. @tarvos 4y

    Personal scripts collection

  10. @daemon4647 4y

    /etc/shadow from prod servers.

  11. @MagnusEdvardsson 4y

    I had backup scripts and stuff like that

  12. @SamsonovAnton 4y

    Your very own *nix distro build system. 😎

  13. @yehorror 4y

    dotfiles

  14. @AlexanderRomanov46 4y

    >went tinder >got asked for github portfolio

  15. @thisisluxion 4y

    as a ricing addict, I have my beautiful dotfiles

    1. @lord_asmo 4y

      .gitignore

  16. @AmindaEU 4y

    what do I not have in my GitHub as non-developer?

    1. @mekosko 4y

      dotfiles

      1. @AmindaEU 4y

        I think those have turned ten this year and are there alongside bash scripts

        1. @RiedleroD 4y

          ?

          1. @AmindaEU 4y

            my dotfiles, I think they may be having their tenth birthday this year

            1. @RiedleroD 4y

              bruh. I take it they have been continually modified?

              1. @AmindaEU 4y

                well my dotfiles also include random files from /etc too and like when I have randomly been trying something and potentially abandoned it later

                1. @RiedleroD 4y

                  /etc/shadow? ;P

                  1. @AmindaEU 4y

                    not that one , sorry but you might as well check https://github.com/Mikaela if we are going to keep talking about it

                    1. @RiedleroD 4y

                      sorry? that's where your passwords are stored lol

                      1. @AmindaEU 4y

                        sorry for not giving you the entertainment my shadow could bring 😛

                    2. @RiedleroD 4y

                      mine is https://github.com/RiedleroD/dotfiles, but that one is way newer and even has a helper script

  17. @karumsenjoyer 4y

    Bash scripts

  18. @dsmagikswsa 4y

    Something like this? https://github.com/krglaws/MyLFS

  19. @FunnyGuyU 4y

    bash scripts

    1. Deleted Account 4y

      those unfortunate fools who don't use bash

      1. @CcxCZ 4y

        zsh gang represent

        1. Deleted Account 4y

          Rc gang (non existant)

          1. @CcxCZ 4y

            es is cool too, but would need slightly more polished implementation

            1. Deleted Account 4y

              seems there are es continuation projects like stuff like nash and nx

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