This "dilemma" is great. I'd rather find out my code is garbage and be able to learn and fix it than not know and continue writing garbage code. Fear of that c

This "dilemma" is great. I'd rather find out my code is garbage and be able to learn and fix it than not know and continue writing garbage code. Fear of that criticism being public is just an ego thing. If you write something people use you will be criticized, if not for the code then for so everything else. Closed- source doesn't help with that. Some say the only way out is to kill your ego, but that's pretty difficult to do. I think a smaller step that's easier is to simply stop attaching your self-worth to your code. You wouldn't hate a learning programmer because they're bad at coding. Extend that same feeling to yourself--unless you think you know everything, you're still learning. People might not like what you make, but that's an opportunity to figure out why, so you can do things differently next time.