My reluctance to contribute to a project for the first time was rooted in imposter syndrome fear people would say my code sucks. So too was my reluctance to publish a greenfield FOSS Project. Then you realize FOSS projects aren't the church of pristine code anymore than anywhere else. Rip the band-aid off! :) #programming #geekhumor #devhumor #humor
I had been programming for *decades*, and for most of that gleefully pushing bullshit into team/company source-control in order to get "more eyes" on what I was doing, before I first worked on a project that lived on github.
It took **a week** to actually type "git push" on my first commit there, the imposter syndrome was so bad.
Nowadays, it's "push PR, ask for a review, three seconds later go 'oh shit, lookit that crap, hang on!'" and off we go. :)
Another is time. If I only had more time to properly work on something besides my work. But when I only get a few hours of free time every week, I prefer exercising my body to not become a wreck with 40.
And yet another is seeing colleagues of mine shamelessly downloading open-source code of students/researchers from GitHub, write a Flask app around it, and soon get promoted for their "excellent work", while whoever wrote the heart of it doesn't ever get an acknowledgement of it.
About 3 years ago, I published a greenfield FOSS project I've been working on for about 10 years. Nobody ever used it. Just looking at the directory, I have um, 27 other interesting projects, that were similarly popular. Published several patches over the years to other projects that were more than 1-line long, and of them ...zero were accepted.
Only conclusion I can make is I'm really bad at selling myself. I mean programming.
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in reply to Hank G ☑️ • • •I had been programming for *decades*, and for most of that gleefully pushing bullshit into team/company source-control in order to get "more eyes" on what I was doing, before I first worked on a project that lived on github.
It took **a week** to actually type "git push" on my first commit there, the imposter syndrome was so bad.
Nowadays, it's "push PR, ask for a review, three seconds later go 'oh shit, lookit that crap, hang on!'" and off we go. :)
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Another is time. If I only had more time to properly work on something besides my work. But when I only get a few hours of free time every week, I prefer exercising my body to not become a wreck with 40.
And yet another is seeing colleagues of mine shamelessly downloading open-source code of students/researchers from GitHub, write a Flask app around it, and soon get promoted for their "excellent work", while whoever wrote the heart of it doesn't ever get an acknowledgement of it.
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in reply to Hank G ☑️ • • •About 3 years ago, I published a greenfield FOSS project I've been working on for about 10 years. Nobody ever used it. Just looking at the directory, I have um, 27 other interesting projects, that were similarly popular. Published several patches over the years to other projects that were more than 1-line long, and of them ...zero were accepted.
Only conclusion I can make is I'm really bad at selling myself. I mean programming.
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