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A bit hyperbolic compared to my experience. Yes, all those things are great and could set you apart but you're still expected to have a basic résumé and cover letter. At least for the companies to which I've applied.
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Won't read it, but you can't just be showing off what you wrote for your employers -- it's not yours to show and it could be confidential. We had to call the legal department on a past contractor a few years back.
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The article is talking about personal projects, articles, blogs, open source, etc to demonstrate expertise. Not production code. Good point to make nonetheless 
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If I'm hiring for a developer position and a candidate sends me a portfolio, his resume and portfolio are going in the trash. It tells me s/he's pretentious.
(BTW, I toss cover letters immediately.)
Edit: Links to online articles, especially here on Code Project, are fine. But even then, I won't bother unless I intend to bring the person in for an interview. In other words, the resume is what sparks the interest.
modified 31-Oct-17 20:48pm.
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TopTal, eh? I'm not particularly fond of them.
None-the-less, a resume doesn't cover 10% of what I've done / can do. Which is why I created (http://www.marcclifton.com) ages ago.
Irony is, even though that's at the top of my resume (as well as a link to my CP articles page) and in my email sig, literally 95% of people (managers, recruiters, etc) don't even look. It's my opening question in a phone interview now: "Did you look at my website or my blog or my articles?" If the answer is no, I tell them to look and call me back when they've done so, as I'll be asking them about what they saw. I kid you not.
One of the main reasons I took this contract gig with a company up in Albany was that when I walked into the interview, one of the senior programmers and the direct supervisor literally opened up the conversation with "wow, we're really impressed with your articles and website." That in itself was a very positive sign.
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A bit less then four years ago I was looking for work in London. I sent dozens of standard one pagers. Perfect in any way, edited by a native speaker, designed by graphical designer. Without feedback. Then I switched to portfolio.
Not a pretentious one, but a human one, a simple one. It shows my thought processes, my approach to solving problems, my understanding of business needs, and my passion for work. Here it is. I have not updated it for four years - Tomaz Stih - Software Engineer[^].
I landed a contract two weeks after publishing it. Today people are still sending me job offers. And, occasionally, I receive a mail from recruiter who wants to help me improve my CV because I got it all wrong. As Marcus Buckingham says: "First, break all the rules." If you have a talent to describe what you did, how you did it, and why you did it and attach a few sexy screen- shots -- just do it. What better promotes us but the work we do?
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Tomaž Štih wrote: What better promotes us but the work we do?
Perhaps. I like:
Tomaž Štih wrote: It shows my thought processes, my approach to solving problems, my understanding of business needs, and my passion for work.
Because I think more than the work we do (much of which is probably work we'd rather NOT be doing), how we do it is more important. Unfortunately, the "how" just doesn't seem to be on the radar of many companies, or if it is, the question they want answered is whether I can be forced into the way they do their work. To which the answer is usually "no." Sort of limits my employment options. 
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I pretty much got into IT because I had a personal website on att.net, back in the late 90's. They were my ISP at the time. Then I created a personal website with a javascript tabbed portfolio of all sorts of things and got consulting jobs in 2004 because of it. By 2009 my full-time employer blocked my website with WebSense; so I eventually a retired it. It's still on the wayback machine!
As for now, I don't think a portfolio would be helpful for me, but for a new graduate, I still think it would be relevant today.
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Web development is no longer number one, with a wide range of skills now in demand. Time to start phoning it in
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A new type of smart fabric developed at the University of Washington could pave the way for jackets that store invisible passcodes and open the door to your apartment or office. Sorry, I don't have the data for you. It's on my other shirt.
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And he stole the shirt right off my back!
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Why do people keep inventing "passcodes" using physical things that aren't always used, are replaced, or which can be easily lost or stolen? I suppose it prevents the "chop of the hand" trick. (Perhaps students at University of Washington don't realize that most people don't need to wear jackets most of the time.)
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Joe Woodbury wrote: don't realize that most people don't need to wear jackets
I don't even own a jacket.
Never underestimate the power of human stupidity
RAH
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I just had to pull my winter one out 
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My identity is in my other pants!
Someone's therapist knows all about you!
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[ ^]
From desktop to mobile in virtual reality or augmented reality, Unreal Engine 4.18 gives you the tools to deliver the types of content users demand. With expanded and improved platform support, you can deliver content wherever users consume it. In our relentless pursuit of a more efficient and streamlined development process, we continue to make updates and improvements to all of our tools so that you can deliver content faster than ever before.
Let me think of something... "The most powerful creation tool"?
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Researchers from MIT, the French Alternative Energies and Atomic Energy Commission, and Adobe Research recently presented a new system that automatically produces code optimized for sparse data. Is tensor algebra the kind of stretchy algebra you use when you sprain numbers?
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Its vector algebra on steroids, the sprain is what happens to your mind when you try to comprehend it.
"If you don't fail at least 90 percent of the time, you're not aiming high enough."
Alan Kay.
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Scientists are using #MyOneScienceTweet to share the most important facts from their fields Is this going to be on the exam?
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If you ask Andrew Kelley, the creator of Zig, he’ll tell you that “anything you can do in C you can do better in Zig.” I thought that was considered a feature?
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Sorry about the Leslie... but kinda mandatory[^]
M.D.V. 
If something has a solution... Why do we have to worry about?. If it has no solution... For what reason do we have to worry about?
Help me to understand what I'm saying, and I'll explain it better to you
Rating helpful answers is nice, but saying thanks can be even nicer.
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If you can't shoot yourself in the foot, then you can't "do anything you can do in C".
Besides, when inventing toy languages, it's all fine and dandy until it actually needs to be useful and then it gets complicated very fast.
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A more in-depth article about Zig here[^].
Don't know, but I think I like it: non-nullable pointers by default, better declaration syntax, slices, etc. yet simple, straightforward and low level.
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Funny; that article gave me more contempt for this toy language. The article disproves the claim than it can do anything C can and seems to entirely miss the point of C. Above all, with C there is a strong correlation between the code and the assembly language produced by the compiler. Once you add automated "safety", that becomes a weak correlation. One you go down that path, why not just move to C++? If determinism isn't needed, go to C# or Java (which have kick-ass tools and where you can at least hire developers without breaking the bank.)
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SCO says IBM released a "sham" version of Monterey OS to prop up AIX for Power. It's almost (almost!) like the lawyers don't want this one to end
Or they're re-writing 'Bleak House'
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