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Kind of impressive when you think about it (thelemmy.club)
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[–] 17 points 3 months ago* (3 children)

I'm always so extremely confused about the trope of the personal project having shit quality... Like, if I'm doing something for myself, that's exactly the place where I wanna do something amazing, like literally all my private projects have much higher quality than my work ones - because in the work ones I'm forced to use stupid conventions, old tools, am not supposed to touch "legacy" code, etc etc etc

As such, since companies have their private code on GitHub, that's where I would expect the shittiness to come from, not personal private projects.

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  • [–] 13 points 3 months ago

    Like, if I'm doing something for myself, that's exactly the place where I wanna do something amazing,

    That's always my intention with my personal projects too! But that always results in "Wow I just learned how to do this thing much better, let me refactor the whole project to do it perfectly everywhere" followed by my Adderall running out. So there's just so many half-done refactors I either forget about or abandon because I get a new idea the next day, but that's totally just a skill issue.

    You're right though, the code I write at work is much worse, but my Company hosts their own GitLab instance so the code we write can't even be used to poison Copilot :(

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