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Writing a resume? These common mistakes can land you in the ‘no’ pile
By Anna Chisholm

Here's what three experts recommend you don't put in your resume for the best chance of securing an interview or landing a role.

https://www.abc.net.au/news/2026-05-11/what-not-to-include-when-writing-a-resume/106656900

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4255 Contributions – A Year of Building in the Open

I was staring at my GitHub profile the other day when a number caught my eye. 4,255. That’s how many contributions GitHub has recorded for me over the past year. I sat with it for a moment, doing the quick mental math: that’s close to twelve contributions every single day, weekends included. The shape of the year looked just as striking. I showed up on 332 of the 366 days in the window, 91% of them, and at one point put together a 113-day streak without a gap. It felt like a lot. It felt like proof of something I hadn’t been able to articulate until I saw it rendered as a green heatmap on a screen.

About a year ago, I wrote about my decision to move back to individual contributor work after years in leadership roles. I talked about missing the flow state, the direct feedback loop of writing code and watching it work. What I didn’t know at the time was just how dramatically that shift would show up in the data. 4,255 contributions is the quantitative answer to the question I was trying to answer qualitatively in that post: what happens when you give a builder back the time to build?

The Shape of a Year

Numbers by themselves are just numbers. What makes them interesting is the shape they take when you zoom in. My year wasn’t a single monolithic effort on one project. It was a constellation of interconnected work, each project feeding into the next, each one teaching me something that made the others better.

The largest body of work was on Gemini CLI, Google’s open-source AI agent for the terminal. This project alone accounts for a significant chunk of those contributions, spanning everything from core feature development to building the Policy Engine that governs how the agent interacts with your system. But the contributions weren’t just code. A huge portion of my time went into code reviews, issue triage, and community engagement. Working on a repository with over 100,000 stars means that every merged PR has real impact, and every review is a conversation with developers around the world.

Then there was Gemini Scribe, my Obsidian plugin that started as a weekend experiment and grew into a tool with 302 stars and a community of writers who depend on it. Over the past year, I shipped a major 3.0 release, built agent mode, and iterated constantly on the rewrite features that make it useful for daily writing. In fact, this very blog post was drafted in the tool I built, which is a strange and satisfying loop.

Alongside these larger efforts, I shipped a handful of small, sharp tools that I needed for my own workflows. The GitHub Activity Reporter is one I’ve written about before, a utility that uses AI to transform raw GitHub data into narrative summaries for performance reviews and personal reflection. More recently, I built the Workspace extension for Gemini CLI and a deep research extension that lets you conduct multi-step research from the terminal. Each of these tools was born from a specific itch, and each turned out to be useful to more people than I expected. The Workspace extension alone has gathered 510 stars.

The Rhythm of Building

One thing the contribution graph doesn’t capture is the rhythm behind the numbers. My weeks developed a cadence over the year that I didn’t plan but that emerged naturally. Mornings were for deep work on Gemini CLI, the kind of focused system design and implementation that benefits from a fresh mind. Afternoons were for reviews and community work, responding to issues, providing feedback on PRs, and engaging with the developers building on top of our tools. Evenings and weekends were where the personal projects lived: Gemini Scribe, the extensions, and whatever new idea was rattling around in my head.

This rhythm is something I couldn’t have had in my previous role. When your calendar is stacked with meetings from nine to five, the creative work gets squeezed into the margins. Now, the creative work is the whole page. That’s the real story behind 4,255 contributions. It’s not about productivity metrics or GitHub gamification. It’s about what happens when you align your time with the work that energizes you.

What Surprised Me

A few things caught me off guard when I looked back at the year.

First, the ratio of code to “everything else” wasn’t what I expected. I assumed the majority of my contributions would be commits. In reality, a massive portion was reviews, comments, and issue management. On Gemini CLI alone I logged 205 reviews over the year. This was especially true as my role on that project evolved from pure contributor to something closer to a technical steward. Reviewing a complex PR, asking the right questions, and helping someone refine their approach takes just as much skill as writing the code yourself. Sometimes more.

Second, the personal projects had more reach than I anticipated. When I wrote about building personal software, I was mostly thinking about tools I built for myself. But Gemini Scribe has real users who file real bugs and request real features. The Workspace extension took off because it solved a problem that a lot of Gemini CLI users were hitting. Building in the open means you discover an audience you didn’t know was there.

Third, and this is the one I keep coming back to, the year felt shorter than 4,255 contributions would suggest. Flow state compresses time. When you’re deep in a problem, hours feel like minutes. I remember entire weekends spent in the codebase that felt like an afternoon. That compression is, for me, the clearest signal that I made the right call in going back to IC work.

Fourth, and this is the one I never would have predicted until I charted it out: the weekend, not the weekday, turned out to be my most productive window by a wide margin. Saturdays averaged 14.7 contributions, Sundays 14.5, and Thursday, the day I’d have guessed was safest, came in last at 8.3. The busiest single day of the entire year was a Saturday, December 20, when I shipped 89 contributions into podcast-rag, rebuilding the web upload flow, adding episode management to the admin dashboard, and migrating email delivery over to Resend, all in one afternoon. I didn’t plan for the weekends to become the engine. They just did, because that’s where the personal projects live, and the personal projects are where the work is loudest, most direct, and most free of interruption. A day with no meetings on it, I’ve come to realize, is worth more than I ever gave it credit for.

Looking Forward

I don’t know what next year’s number will be, and I’m not particularly interested in making it bigger. The number is a side effect, not a goal. What I care about is continuing to work on problems that matter, in the open, with people who push me to think more clearly. The AI-first developer model I wrote about over a year ago is now just how I work every day. The agents I’m building are the collaborators I’m building with, and both keep getting better.

If you’re someone who’s been thinking about a similar shift, whether it’s moving back to IC work, contributing to open source, or just carving out more time for the work that lights you up, I’d encourage you to try it. You might be surprised by what a year of focused building can produce. I certainly was.

Career growth isn’t only about the next title. Discover how intentional career design leads to clarity, confidence, and long-term fulfillment.

Read more: https://www.careerreload.com/how-to-career-design/

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Career growth isn’t only about the next title. Discover how intentional career design leads to clarity, confidence, and long-term fulfillment.

Read more: https://www.careerreload.com/how-to-career-design/

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How to Start Designing the Career You Want
👉 https://www.careerreload.com/how-to-career-design/

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How to Start Designing the Career You Want
👉 https://www.careerreload.com/how-to-career-design/

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Tác giả Clairvantz đã phát triển 1 ứng dụng giúp học sinh hiểu bài tập, lên kế hoạch cho học tập và sự nghiệp. Ứng dụng phân tích từng bước, hỗ trợ phụ huynh khi không nhớ cách giải quyết bài toán. Đang tìm phản hồi từ cộng đồng.

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https://www.reddit.com/r/SideProject/comments/1pofh9s/clairvantz_i_built_an_app_to_help_students/

A 5-year plan acts as a compass rather than a crystal ball. It provides direction when you feel lost and helps you filter opportunities.

Read more: https://www.careerreload.com/how-to-create-5-year-plan/

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Search trends reveal the human side of layoffs in tech. Rising anxiety, career uncertainty, and financial concerns are measurable through digital behavior. Organizations must leverage these insights to build resilient, informed, and prepared workforces globally.

Read: https://intellitrongenesis.com/2025/12/04/layoffs-in-tech-what-search-data-reveals-about-anxiety/

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How to Create a 5-Year Plan (Templates Included)
👉 https://www.careerreload.com/how-to-create-5-year-plan/

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Thinking About The Next Five Years

https://islandinthenet.com/thinking-about-the-next-five-years/

How to create a Business Plan for your Self-Publishing Career

Last week, we talked about how treating your writing like a business is the key to moving from hobbyist to “real writer.” The next step is to lay the foundation for that business with a clear and workable plan. A business plan might sound…
https://www.hiddengemsbooks.com/create-business-plan-for-self-publishing-career/

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Happy National Handshake Day.

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https://itsmostamazingindia.wordpress.com/2025/06/26/happy-national-handshake-day/

Learn how to stay organized during a career transition. Discover tools to manage your schedule and ease the process of change.

Read more: https://www.careerreload.com/stay-organized-during-career-transition/

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#Editor and #writer Tanya Mykhaylychenko has some great #worksheets and #checklists here for #CareerPlanning: https://bit.ly/3G2OK0R . Email: [email protected] .

As we face an ever-changing #JobMarket, non-linear #CareerPaths are becoming the new normal. Here are some reasons why. https://www.forbes.com/sites/carolinecastrillon/2023/02/26/why-non-linear-career-paths-are-the-future/ #CareerDevelopment #CareerPlanning via @Forbes

I don't know if I'm looking to switch careers or just extend what I'm doing now in a more technical direction. I've had so many false starts with trying to get into software development, and it seemed like the last twelve months something has finally broken loose, like I'm finally moving forward. This week felt like both the culmination and the start of something. A corner turned.

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