> Nobody wants to read the source code to such garbage as "stfupy3.org"
How do you know? It could be exactly what I need for some esoteric reason!
Within the past year, I've found several useful projects on Github that their authors who appeared to consider them worthless.
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Edit: As an example, I really wanted a simplistic dictionary app for my iPhone, which used the definitions built into iOS so it could work offline without taking up lots of storage space. Apps like this are explicitly against App Store guidelines.
I'm not really a developer of any kind—I know basic Javascript—but I was able to figure out enough to get the app working on modern iOS, with modern fonts and such. The result was https://github.com/Wowfunhappy/Dictionary
Here's what really surprised me—I posted this to the /r/Jailbreak subreddit and I still get PM's once every other week thanking me for the app (which, I think I made quite clear, I didn't write). Apparently english language learners in particular find it very helpful.
Suffice to say, I'm really happy that "forresty", whoever they are, posted their rejected iOS app to Github.
> How do you know? It could be exactly what I need for some esoteric reason!
No true scotsman wants to read that garbage.
> Within the past year, I've found several useful projects on Github that their authors who appeared to consider them worthless.
If the authors truly believed it was worthless, they wouldn't have expended the energy to publish it.
But that's not the point anyway. If you drown out your good work with all the crap you may have written over the years, your overall portfolio becomes weaker. In the arts, pretty much everyone knows this. In programming, apparently only the people that are hiring know this.
Take a look at the example I edited in above (it looks like our posts crossed). I really do think that app's author considered it fairly worthless, it barely has a readme and it was explicitly given a WTFPL license.
I would have thought my barely-tweaked fork was worthless to, and almost didn't share it, but I'm glad I did.
I'm not assuming that and it's irrelevant anyway. I'm concerned with what matters, not what represents some majority. The Github profile is (part of) your portfolio and if your portfolio sucks you are worse off professionally.
If that doesn't apply or matter to you, that's fine. You can move right along.
How do you know? It could be exactly what I need for some esoteric reason!
Within the past year, I've found several useful projects on Github that their authors who appeared to consider them worthless.
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Edit: As an example, I really wanted a simplistic dictionary app for my iPhone, which used the definitions built into iOS so it could work offline without taking up lots of storage space. Apps like this are explicitly against App Store guidelines.
After a chance search on Github, I came across this. Licensed under the WTFPL. https://github.com/forresty-archive/Dictionary
I'm not really a developer of any kind—I know basic Javascript—but I was able to figure out enough to get the app working on modern iOS, with modern fonts and such. The result was https://github.com/Wowfunhappy/Dictionary
Here's what really surprised me—I posted this to the /r/Jailbreak subreddit and I still get PM's once every other week thanking me for the app (which, I think I made quite clear, I didn't write). Apparently english language learners in particular find it very helpful.
Suffice to say, I'm really happy that "forresty", whoever they are, posted their rejected iOS app to Github.