There's a specific flavor of embarrassment that only developers know.
It's 11 PM. You've just finished a weekend project you're genuinely proud of. You push it to your personal GitHub, open the repo in your browser to admire it, and there it is at the top of the commit list:
developer@company.com committed 2 minutes ago
Your work email. On your personal project. Sitting in a public repo. Forever.
Nobody's going to fire you over it. But it looks sloppy, it quietly announces which company you work at to every stranger who reads your code, and — the part that actually stings — it means the commit doesn't show up on your personal contribution graph. All those little green squares you earned at midnight? They went to an account that doesn't even know they exist.
