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What?! How?! Why?! This is the greatest thing ever. I wish I could just write code for the fun of it. Every time I wonder whether people will use it and give u

What?! How?! Why?! This is the greatest thing ever. I wish I could just write code for the fun of it. Every time I wonder whether people will use it and give up before I even get started.

mirceal 7y ago
why not? writing code can fall into one of a few bucket. one of them is play.
- anon4242 7y ago
  Exactly! Write code that you find interesting and/or need for something and then share it. If someone uses your stuff, then great, if not, at least you've become a slightly better programmer! It's a win-win!
- ehsankia 7y ago
  Absolutely, some of the most fun I've had coding was reverse engineering/implementing known protocols. Although something this big may be a little overboard :)
max0563 7y ago
I had this problem too. I’ve been able to get over it by from coming up with a scenario, even if it’s completely fabricated, where what I am doing can be useful. I also make sure that I incorporate something new that I want to learn in the project. Whether it’s a language, library, whatever. Then I give myself a date I can quit. Normally it’s about two months. This makes me really consider whether I want to take something on because if I do I force myself to dedicate two months of time to it. If I enjoy it still at the end of two months then I continue otherwise I move on to another idea. At least in that time I because a little better at whatever I was trying to do. That’s the real goal anyway.
js2 7y ago
I wrote this to scratch my own itch but mostly just for the fun of it and some people ended up using it. https://github.com/jaysoffian/eap_proxy https://github.com/jaysoffian/eap_proxy This was a really simple project but tickled all my fancies: Python, low-level, networking, reverse engineering, system administration. Just do it! Who cares if people use it? Alternatively, contribute something to some open source project you use. I’ve done that too. Just small stuff here and there but that’ll guarantee someone uses your code if that’s what’s important to you. It only takes 39 commits to get on this page: https://github.com/git/git/graphs/contributors https://github.com/git/git/graphs/contributors :-)
craftyguy 7y ago
> What?! How?! Why?! The readme literally answers this..

What?! How?! Why?! This is the greatest thing ever. I wish I could just write code for the fun of it. Every time I wonder whether people will use it and give up before I even get started.

mirceal 7y ago

why not? writing code can fall into one of a few bucket. one of them is play.

anon4242 7y ago
Exactly! Write code that you find interesting and/or need for something and then share it. If someone uses your stuff, then great, if not, at least you've become a slightly better programmer! It's a win-win!
ehsankia 7y ago
Absolutely, some of the most fun I've had coding was reverse engineering/implementing known protocols. Although something this big may be a little overboard :)

max0563 7y ago

I had this problem too. I’ve been able to get over it by from coming up with a scenario, even if it’s completely fabricated, where what I am doing can be useful. I also make sure that I incorporate something new that I want to learn in the project. Whether it’s a language, library, whatever. Then I give myself a date I can quit. Normally it’s about two months. This makes me really consider whether I want to take something on because if I do I force myself to dedicate two months of time to it. If I enjoy it still at the end of two months then I continue otherwise I move on to another idea. At least in that time I because a little better at whatever I was trying to do. That’s the real goal anyway.

js2 7y ago

I wrote this to scratch my own itch but mostly just for the fun of it and some people ended up using it. https://github.com/jaysoffian/eap_proxy https://github.com/jaysoffian/eap_proxy This was a really simple project but tickled all my fancies: Python, low-level, networking, reverse engineering, system administration. Just do it! Who cares if people use it? Alternatively, contribute something to some open source project you use. I’ve done that too. Just small stuff here and there but that’ll guarantee someone uses your code if that’s what’s important to you. It only takes 39 commits to get on this page: https://github.com/git/git/graphs/contributors https://github.com/git/git/graphs/contributors :-)

craftyguy 7y ago

> What?! How?! Why?! The readme literally answers this..