Comparing output

I recently looked at someone’s GitHub account because I saw that they had recently been sponsored by someone I follow on BlueSky.

Their GitHub account (https://github.com/shuuji3) is very impressive, and I believe that this developer is worthy of the sponsorship they receive. They have been working on documentation for several large projects, made over 1,475 commits in the past year, and contributed to Elk, the Mastodon client.

It’s all really impressive and did make me think: how do they find the time to do all this? Then I easily fall into the trap of comparing my GitHub output with theirs.

It’s easily done, especially now with GitHub being such a big part of the web industry. But does it show a true picture of how someone works or the type of work they have done? And should we really compare our output with someone else’s?