sadReality
Thursday, 13 Mar 2025
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if they see they wont hire me anymore
Relatable.
Any time I think about doing public dev content (whether that’s open source code, articles, videos, or something else), I imagine the whole world as my code reviewers, I ponder whether I’ve actually found the best approach to the problem, and I decide to put it off until I have more knowledge.
17 years of experience and counting, so I could probably write up some useful stuff, but my standards are rising as fast as my experience level.
If you think, you’ve written terrible code, share it on GitHub for Copilot to learn from it
I’ve run across some code, commercial and with an NDA, that was indeed shameful. So shameful they could have at least obfuscated it first!
No seriously, a programming style where the opening and ending braces are not to the same indent level. I read a simple routine for about an hour wondering how it could possibly work until I realized the indention was off.
Not sharing code out of nda
I wouldn’t hire me.
I choose:
“Not sharing your code because you’re not obligated to, greed or not”
Both. Both is good.
Not sharing your source code so it doesn’t get scraped by AI
Not sharing your code for security reasons.
If I don’t show others my code, it is not because I fear they will steal it, nor to protect myself from their judgement, but to protect them from the contagious madness that drove me to write such a horror.
No one cares about my code so I make it open source, no matter how cringe it is
Just this week my colleague won’t send me their code because it’s such a mess and they want to fix it first. I told them it’s okay and I’ll tidy it up so they can focus on other things.
It was a monstrosity.
Someone be spitting facts
I can share my code but
you wouldn’t get it…
Even I don’t understand it anymore…
looks like another bot account…
I always tell my team that we aren’t trying to take our code to the prom, it’s ok if it’s ugly sometimes as long as it works.
Why is there ALWAYS someone better than you in the dev world? I wanna know who’s at the top of the tree 🙁
If it works it works.
I have a proxy without a purpose that fits the bill
My code is great. It only the code older than a week that’s horrible
Share your code and use your shame as motivation to become better.
Been coding for a lonnng time. One of the best experiences I ever had was doing an OS project. It started in-house, and I thought that it would be helpful to others working in the area “cough Kafka cough”.
There were a few people that were picking at the edges, but then there were really cool people that helped! They got the idea of my messy code and just helped me make it better.
Academics
Do not judge my switch cases, it’s a tower of power.
Are you real person op?
For me, I just think that maybe others will have better codes *uses best practices than mine, so mine will end up being useless anyway.
So, I don’t even try to share it.
Walk me through the streets naked.
There’s a reason that out of my 280 repos I only have about 12 set to public – and it’s not because I’ve signed an NDA
I remember years ago sharing the code for something I was working on.
I was asked to explain some of it and how/why it worked or why I did it this way.
I had nothing, it didn’t look like it should have worked and I was too scared to “fix” it lol
I no longer do any coding… Thankfully haha.
The gory demonic horrors of my private repo are not meant for human eyes.
TOO SOON.
Please share it. LLM are in need of new datasources.
Sharing your code out of pride in your work?
Sharing your code as a cautionary tale!
My fear with sharing code, if I could, is that I wouldn’t have spare time a lot of the time to properly maintain it and I’m not going to hand ownership over to a complete stranger if it does end up being useful. Even sharing code across teams when it’s not an official internal library can be a mess and a half.
Oh yeah, devs are greedy for wanting to make a living from their trade.
Its always the latter. If any of you knew how my projects look like you would forbid me from touching computers
I have an old Army buddy that wrote some automation stuff for himself that included a task I also wanted. So I asked him for it. And he wouldn’t give it to me. He and I deployed together, we’ve seen each other naked, there are no secrets between us. He wouldn’t give me his code because he was embarrassed about it.
I probably spent 10 times longer cajoling him for it then it would have taken me to just write it myself because he was ashamed it was messy. Again, we have no secrets, we have had lengthy discussions about our dicks, and his fucking code was “too personal”?