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I firmly believe that a finished, running project - no matter how embarrassing the code will not make the person who developed it look bad. Human endeavors are

I firmly believe that a finished, running project - no matter how embarrassing the code will not make the person who developed it look bad. Human endeavors are difficult and nothing incredible was made by one person. Additionally, when we make things in groups it isn't one person who's perfect and everyone else is being shaped by that one person. We all learn and grow and help each other learn and grow. I suggest posting things that make you uncomfortable due to their 'quality' because the more you do it the more you'll start to dissolve that part of your ego that is pre-embarrassed by the imagined responses of people who have yet to review your work. I say this as someone who is struggling to finish a comic written by one of my friends for this very reason. Do the thing - put it out there (if you have the inclination) - learn - lather - rinse - repeat.

marpstar 4y ago
This reminds me of a software engineering project in college where we had to re-write an old DOS game called Chopper Commando (https://www.classicdosgames.com/game/Chopper_Commando.html https://www.classicdosgames.com/game/Chopper_Commando.html) given the Turbo Pascal source code, which was used as an example of terrible code that works just fine, and required to establish a cleaner architecture that manages to achieve feature parity with the original. We all talked shit about how bad that code was (like we were some experts or something...). People who want to talk shit will talk shit. People who don't know what they don't know will talk shit. Do what you want to do.