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honey the codewitch10-Mar-23 3:55
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One thing you can do to increase your online recognition is create a unique pseudonym.

If you're unclever like me, make it long to make it unique.

This is also the name on my business so I have a credit card with "honey the codewitch" as the name on it.

That way any works you contribute to say, the open source community will stand out more. Kenneth H., John G., Robert S. They just don't stand out in a list of contributors on github, for example.

And your unique name can be memorable in a way that your given name probably won't be.

I discovered all of this by mistake. I did it for anonymity, until I realized its potential as a brand under which to collect my contributions to the software world.

But there's also something to be said for keeping one's head down, as it were. Anonymity can be comforting.
To err is human. Fortune favors the monsters.

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