Am baby
My code is disgusting 🫠
But I’m getting better every day!
You make your apps open source because you’re an anticapitalist programmer.
I make my apps open source because I’m a cook and worry about allergies.
We are not the same.
You don’t open-source your code because you’re embarrassed by it.
I don’t open-source my code because I don’t understand how git works.
We are not the same.
I am ashamed to say that it took me far longer than it should have for me to understand what the hell I was doing with Git.
But you did it! You understand it and that’s pretty rad. Every victory, no matter how small, is still a victory!!
I have multiple 200+ loc shell scripts with their own little built-in changelog-parser because i rather did that than setting up the server i’ve built already.
Upload it anyway and poison the training data
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I don’t make anything open source because one of my projects became semi popular and I had to give it away for the sake of my mental health.
Some people seem to think that open source means they have the right to demand free labour and harass people for it. That, and university students that want people to do their homework instead of RTFM.
Many years ago I made a library for Arduino to control an 8x8 LED matrix to display running text. It was not very clean but I like it enough to upload it to the forums (I couldn’t find anything similar). One week later it was complely different to what I uploaded and it was super efficient and a bunch of people added new functions and availability but my name still appeared as a main contributor. Of course I put it on my CV and showed it to my professors!
This is encouraging!
Relatable content.
So what? The best outcome is that someone issues a pull request that teaches you how to do what you did in a “better” way. The worst outcome is that someone starts using your code in an LLM and vibecoders learn your style.
Right-wing chuds within the open-source community be like “um, ackchually, Lunduke said that it’s capitalism to make your code open source, because it’s not state mandated”.
I used to watch Lunduke’s linux Sucks speech every year it came out. What happened to that guy? Was he always the worst and I didn’t notice til 2020?
Joke’s on you, all my embarrassing code is online.
This is why I wrote bat_count.py. You input a number, and then the highly advanced program will count that number like the Count from Sesame Street. Example output for 3:
One…one bat.
Two…two bats.
Three! Three bats. Ah ah ah ah!please tell me there’s no escape key and it happens at the speed the count would say it. i have ideas for pranks.
That’s correct. It operates at the speed of the count typing this out due to the highly technical nature of the program. There is also no limit so you could put ten billion in there for example.
Do you have a program to help you count sheep to fall asleep? Asking for a friend
Kids these days want everything digital. Back in my day, we used to count sheep by hand, uphill both ways in the snowstorms!
But do AI dream of digital sheep?
Most proprietary code nowadays would probably also be seen as embarrassing
I’ve worked with proprietary code for 25 years that’s embarrassing.
Oof… felt this one right in the code.
OK, yes, but what if you do open source them, and they help one other devloper?
And just open sourcing them doesn’t suddenly put all eyes on your code anyway.
I suppose you make a point, I’m not sure how my school would feel about me open sourcing my project code though 😅
Once I have more time for Personal projects I plan to open source everything.
Embarrassing*
Well that’s embarscing
Hey. I didn’t come here to be attacked, pal.
