Comment by bberenberg

2 years ago

I wish more people would take stuff like this, oss it, and disable PR requests and issues. Let others use it / learn / build on it with the clear expectation that feedback and contributions are unwanted.

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lobsterthief  2 years ago

To be fair, when you do that you would approach coding the application differently, which adds to development time. Also, it can change the whole mentality of developing it. Probably why more people don’t do that, though I agree it would be nice.

  • quickthrower2  2 years ago

    You can ossify it (ha!) after you have done all the work and it is mostly complete.

        git remote add origin …
    git push

    • fuzztester  2 years ago

      Time to coin a new word - enossification - like enshittification - which I came across here recently, but without the negative connotation of the latter.

  • bberenberg  2 years ago

    Can you elaborate on what you would need to do different in terms of dev? The only thing I would do differently in this scenario would be to ensure no secrets or anything gets into the code which is a minor lift but also probably for the best.

    • rthomas6  2 years ago

      In python I do horrible things like the following when nobody else is going to see it:

        [[[foo(x) for x in y] for y in bar_vec if baz(y)] for bar_vec in bar_mat if bar_vec != []]

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    • eternityforest  2 years ago

      I assume the issue is you self-censor more and have to do things exactly by the book.

      I've never been particularly interested in "software for one person" but I've shared lots of working but not great code(years old from before type annotations that hasn't been touched much since, written a hurry, etc), and faced some embarrassment.

      If I was actually attached to specific details of the style, like "Yeah it crashes on some JSON input, but I don't care, it's only meant to handle stuff from this other thing I made" I might not really like sharing it as much.

pech0rin  2 years ago

I disagree with this. If you are truly building for yourself there is no criticism, no prying eyes, it is well and truly yours. Even with PR and issues closed people read it, maybe comment about it on social media or hackernews. There is beauty in a creation that is complete private.