Most of the projects are straight forks with no additions, or puerile flatline dumps of boilerplate - generated structures with little to no meat.
I don't want to put anyone down, he's obviously in a tough situation, but I maybe would've left the GitHub link out, it doesn't add anything (positive) to the story.
The GitHub may be insufficient evidence that he is a good coder, but it doesn't strike me as evidence that he "never learned to code", yet that is what you said, and that is the impression people will be left with if they do not check for themselves.
I looked at the GitHub expecting to genuinely find actual examples of really bad code due to your statement, but that is not what I found, mostly I found a pretty empty GitHub, which is not too interesting, I know lots of perfectly good coders with empty GitHubs or no GitHubs at all.
> maybe would've left the GitHub link out, it doesn't add anything (positive) to the story
That is another matter, unrelated to you saying they "never learned to code" without, what it looks like, any evidence.
