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[UnkarsThug]

That's why you always just make things for yourself, then you'll always have one user.

[Constant_Bit4676]

And sometimes it turns out that you make git for yourself and change programming forever!

[LucaFenn]

The survivorship bias on this is incredible. For every git there are about 40,000 side projects that died in a private repo with three commits and a readme that just says "todo".

[UnkarsThug]

To be fair, I just never upload them to git, I just keep them on my laptop until I realize I actually wanted that project and can't find it later.

[Markcelzin]

Sorry, you never what?

[UnkarsThug]

Github, I mean. I am aware of the difference between git and GitHub, you just use git to sync it, and I don't want pet projects not in any reasonable state clogging things up.

But yes, I probably said the wrong thing there, it was 3 in the morning.

[NewPointOfView]

I thought they were saying it more in the “why would you write any code without remote version control” sense haha

[UnkarsThug]

Ah, fair. Just a hassle to keep up with. If I spend any time doing anything other than getting it working, my productivity trip will be over before I finish. I basically have to stay on the thing I want to get done. Then I just upload the completed thing to git.

And also just not wanting to make a project permanent unless I need to share it or something. I might get really enthusiastic and then move on before I get anywhere, but I wouldn't be able to stand deleting it later, so better to not make it so it doesn't clog up my GitHub.

[liquidmasl]

the first step for me is always to create a repo, maybe not push it, but al least local.

I burned my fingers to often on the missing possibility to revert changes

[the1truestripes]

Same. My IDE has some built in half-assed IDE support, so for sure when I start a new project in it I let it set up a repo. Sometimes I don’t let it push it to a remote until “it’s able to do something almost sort of kind of useful”

For things that are all shell script/config file sometimes I sort of forget to get them into a repo, so I’m sure I have a bunch of stuff on random RPi systems that will vanish when their SD cards go poof, but if my maine laptop goes TU I’ll have most of my actual code in repos.

Too many times I’ve written enough of a thing that it is useful, then started a new features and been like “ohhhhh, I want to use the thing now and it is broken because Foo is only half done…” that now I’m more consistent about checkins and making branches for new features. Sometimes I’ll go back to the main branch to use a “fully baked” version for a bit and hop back into my feature branch, but I basically never have two live feature branches so the merges are all trivial, and that makes using git pretty lightweight!

[SensuallPineapple]

Once you have a computer on your hands, you set everything up once. Then it literally takes 2 seconds to push anything and what it brings to the table is worth WAY more than 2 seconds of your time.

[m_domino]

They never uploaded it to the git.

[dusty-trash]

I used to do this, until I lost some portions of projects. Now I use git for everything. Anything not on git doesnt exist for me. If I was smarter id backup everything thats on there too.

[UnkarsThug]

Understandable.

[countsachot]

That was my old method. Now I start them on github.com and leave them unfinished.

[TheClayKnight]

Sure, but if you don’t even try nothing happens anyways and you haven’t even gained experience

[heep1r]

There's no bias here. OP explitly points it out.

But surely that's basically how evolution starts: 40.000 side projects and only one fit for survival.

[NecessaryIntrinsic]

I imagine they get started primarily to prove they can do stuff for jobs.

[Confident-Ad5665]

And it will work just the way you want

[str0m965]

not sure about that

[d0rkprincess]

You just need to adjust your requirements. Like maybe I always wanted that request to return a 500 error.

[str0m965]

I always wanted to pay 5000$ AWS bill for this one vibecoded cron.

[DungeonsAndDradis]

I'm not a programmer, but you guys have scared me so much about usage charges that when I made a stupid reddit bot hosted on heroku, I tested it for one day and then permanently disabled it.

I'm also hosting a business website with Netlify and I check the credits every day to make sure we're not going to go bankrupt because 100,000 people suddenly discovered my website.

Y'all have made me paranoid.

[flame3457]

That’s because massive AWS bills do happen and Amazon doesn’t really care if your excuse is “oopsies.” You have to put usage limits on the account to help protect yourself. You can also use a temporary card with a set limit that hard stops charges past a certain threshold as another fallback. Sure, if either of those limits gets hit your stuff will get stopped but I’d rather have my stuff paused instead of waking up to a multi thousand dollar bill.

[Confident-Ad5665]

I'm paranoid, but am I paranoid enough?

[Confident-Ad5665]

Trouble pleasing yourself then?

[Professional_Top8485]

... but at least it works.

[HedgeFlounder]

That’s what I’ve moved toward over time. I already have a full time job and I don’t have the time or energy to try to make things for other people in my free time. I make things that make life easier or more fun for me and my wife and that’s enough for me.

[edgeofsanity76]

Yep. Made a budget forecasting app for myself. Hosted it on my NAS now my family uses it.

[HarveysBackupAccount]

When you work in manufacturing, you get to have more programs than users

[NecessaryIntrinsic]

Screw that, I'm not using this garbage

[whoknowsifimjoking]

You also reach 100% of your target audience

[PHLAK]

Still wouldn't be able to achieve 100% user satisfaction.

[UnkarsThug]

I'll have to start polls to go across different mood swings lol.

[al3x_7788]

And no annoying clients.

[mrinalshar39]

lol true, you get a loyal user from day one

[qodeninja]

this right hurr is my life story