The Portfolio That Wasn't Mine Anymore A few months ago, a developer posted something in a Discord I'm in that stuck with me. He'd just wrapped a technical interview. It went well. The hiring manager mentioned she'd looked at his portfolio beforehand. The problem: his portfolio still listed jQuery and Bootstrap as core skills. His last "featured project" was a to-do app from a bootcamp. Meanwhile, his GitHub was full of Go microservices, Terraform configs, and contributions to two open-source CLI tools. He didn't get the role. The manager later told him she'd had concerns about his experience level based on what she saw online. His GitHub told one story. His portfolio told another. She saw the portfolio first. The Gap Between What You Build and What People See This is more common than most developers realize. Your GitHub profile is a living, timestamped record of your actual work. Every commit, every language breakdown, every contribution graph. It updates every time you push code.…