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Now, I am really curious why would it be of any value (putting aside the HN policy discouraging it) to anyone. I understand that GH repo stars help project visi
by smarx007 6y ago
Now, I am really curious why would it be of any value (putting aside the HN policy discouraging it) to anyone. I understand that GH repo stars help project visibility and may be good on CV but gists?
- codetrotter 6y agoI use the number of stars as a measure for how much the guide is of use to people. If it’s not useful to anyone then I know not to spend time on that. Short though as the guide is, and even though it is based on much hard work of others, it still took time to make, much in part because when I write stuff like this I spend a lot of time actually redoing steps to ensure to the best of my ability that what I am writing will work for others too. So I like to know that people find it useful.
- llarsson 6y agoSo you wrote it just for GitHub stars? Not because it was useful to yourself?
- codetrotter 6y agoThe motivation to run FreeBSD in a VM on my M1 MBP comes from being an active user of FreeBSD for a long time. For example my mail, web and VPN server runs FreeBSD. And I have been running FreeBSD both on desktops and laptops for a long time as well. The motivation to make a guide for others to follow is that it should be useful for others too. What I am saying is, when it’s useful for others it’s worth spending the time on writing up how to do it and share it with others.