Re:The Few, the Tired, the Open Source Coders
by ChrisMarshallNY on Friday November 20, 2020 @07:03AM
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> I even sit down for sometimes hours to write documentation, comment my code, make it maintainable. It gives me a certain joy to make it all neat and tidy, just in case someone ever comes across it (which might or might not ever happen, but if it does, it'll be nice!).
I've been doing that for so long, that it is completely habitual.
My stuff is generally not popular. I'm my own best customer, but I write (and document) everything I do (even the one-offs), as if they will be a corporate legacy.
One of my projects (a fairly massive one, actually) became something a lot bigger. It is now being maintained by a skilled and energetic team. They don't always do things the way that I would have, and that's a good thing. The project is thriving.
The best thing I did for it, was step away, after developing it -alone- for ten years.
Exactly! I've been open sourcing all my projects, often even under MIT or similar, and hope that one day it will be useful to someone!
I even sit down for sometimes hours to write documentation, comment my code, make it maintainable. It gives me a certain joy to make it all neat and tidy, just in case someone ever comes across it (which might or might not ever happen, but if it does, it'll be nice!).