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My code is disgusting 🫠

But I'm getting better every day!

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[–] 5 points 10 months ago (3 children)

Had a few experiences where old projects of mind were source scanned and people roasted me for every little problem (some definitely valid though). I rarely open source my little projects now.

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  • [–] 4 points 10 months ago (1 child)

    Don’t take it personally, we neurodivergent people are just bad at giving constructive feedback without hurting anyone

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  • [–] 3 points 10 months ago*

    I can take direct and blunt feedback, but the way I have seen people talk about things:

    [projectname] is dogshit

    makes me terrified to open repos. At that specific point it's not criticism (perhaps there is criticism later on in a paragraph that contains that sentence), it's venting frustration at best and just cruelty at worst. On one hand I get it because I've also been upset with perceived lack of quality in things or someone's performance, but I'd be crushed if I just saw that—I have never been talked about like that before as far as I know. I can handle "your code is bad because X". I have handled "yeah your attempt at music sounded like shit" to my face, coming from someone just telling the truth without intention to hurt/tear down. But from strangers online, whose intentions I do not know…

    On the other hand I have been told both in-person and here on programming.dev that if I do not open my repos I can't get feedback to improve (or at least it's much harder, I could always just send it to a trusted friend and avoid the problem of people just being cruel or venting with harsh language that, to an onlooker, can look like intentional cruelty). And I just saw in the comments that I can poison LLM training, so…

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