• Repple (she/her)@lemmy.world
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    7 months ago

    I always feel like my code is the best in personal projects when I don’t need to conform to whatever style and architecture has been decided on by history and committee.

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      7 months ago

      For me it’s always, “this is hacky as shit, but it works, and nobody will ever see it but me.”

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        7 months ago

        My most arcane pieces of code (abusing null references to make the garbage collector handle object deletion kind of cursed) are usually posted publicly somewhere… If it works and all that.

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    7 months ago

    Gotta review the 5 line PR ten times just to make absolutely totally sure there’s nothing wrong with it before submitting it.

  • Bilb!@lem.monster
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    7 months ago

    I have never contributed to an open source project before, so if we exclude the third part this is the reverse of my habits. The stuff I do for work is bare minimum garbage, I freely admit. I really do not like my employer.

  • SomeGuy69@lemmy.world
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    I would like to contribute to open source but I’m not confident enough or understand git properly. As solo dev I only have to fulfill my boss’s standards, they seam to be low.

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      Yeh, for me git is a backup system.
      My boss gave me a hand on some bits (more, I set up a framework and he could tweak pages). Anyway, I fixed some stuff, tidied some of his shit, then trying to get git to merge that back into his workspace REALLY stretched my knowledge of git LUL.
      I’m sure doing that every day would get me up to speed, but ATM commit/push means “backup” to me