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As a meta-reply: Do people find value in unmaintained codedumps? I registered a dedicated github account last year for all the small stuff I wrote during train
by Argorak 15y ago
As a meta-reply:
Do people find value in unmaintained codedumps? I registered a dedicated github account last year for all the small stuff I wrote during train rides (I do a lot of them, 5 hours apiece) and never really finished. The idea was that I put a README on each of those and just leave it there for anyone to look at. But most of them are just tiny experiments in Ruby, so I decided not to release them for precisely the reasons mentioned in the parent post.
- fusiongyro 15y ago> Do people find value in unmaintained codedumps? I think the answer is "no" and that's why I'm having such a hard time learning Smalltalk.
- streptomycin 15y agoI do, sometimes. I've learned from toy/unmaintained/experimental projects. If I'm trying to learn how to effectively use some library or framework that isn't hugely popular, I'll look at any code I can get my hands on, even if it's from some random codedump.
- tikhonj 15y agoI've certainly found some like that useful. Admittedly for didactic purposes--when I'm learning something new, I like to look at existing code. I've also sometimes found solutions to problems I'm having from random projects which just happened to solve the same problem. Admittedly it doesn't happen often, but it does, so you may as well put them out there :).
- albertzeyer 15y agoI really like reading other peoples code (even more when the topic/language/whatever is interesting to me) even if it is only some small proof-of-concept or idea / unfinished code, i.e. not really useable as-is. For really small tests/examples, I have a playground directory: https://github.com/albertz/playground https://github.com/albertz/playground Everything else which is slightly more than a single file or has some other justification to be an own project, I just created a repo for it. https://github.com/albertz https://github.com/albertz http://www.az2000.de/projects/ http://www.az2000.de/projects/
- technomancy 15y agoWe do this with the Seattle Clojure group. We frequently live-code collaboratively on a small problem that can be tackled in 2 hours. Usually it's silly and useless, but a few have been picked up or at least come in handy to point others to as an example of a certain technique: https://github.com/Seajure https://github.com/Seajure