<p>I spent 100 Udemy courses, mass YouTube binges, and 17-hour study days building private repos nobody will ever see.

The turning point wasn&#39;t learning more. It was learning that dead projects in private GitHub repos don&#39;t count as proof of anything.

One public, documented homelab with a real Kubernetes cluster, CI/CD pipeline, and monitoring stack beats 100 private repos and 12 expired certifications.

Make your work visible or it doesn&#39;t exist.</p>

Mischa van den Burg

I spent 100 Udemy courses, mass YouTube binges, and 17-hour study days building private repos nobody will ever see.

The turning point wasn't learning more. It was learning that dead projects in private GitHub repos don't count as proof of anything.

One public, documented homelab with a real Kubernetes cluster, CI/CD pipeline, and monitoring stack beats 100 private repos and 12 expired certifications.

Make your work visible or it doesn't exist.

<p>I spent 100 Udemy courses, mass YouTube binges, and 17-hour study days building private repos nobody will ever see.

The turning point wasn't learning more. It was learning that dead projects in private GitHub repos don't count as proof of anything.

One public, documented homelab with a real Kubernetes cluster, CI/CD pipeline, and monitoring stack beats 100 private repos and 12 expired certifications.

Make your work visible or it doesn't exist.</p>