How often do you go over your Github's contributions and look at them to gain some insights?
Posted by No-Security-7518@reddit | ExperiencedDevs | View on Reddit | 7 comments
Feels like reading a diary from years ago to just see the volume of commits one has contributed to repos, private or otherwise. I've experienced a bittersweet cocktail going over them; feelings ranging from realizing I wasted too much time on dead-end features, to mystifying choices of tools/implementations of features, to occasionally feeling impressed by how long I stuck with some solutions.
PS: I'm self-employed/freelancer. So I've had near total freedom in going one way or another.
Majestic_Diet_3883@reddit
In the end i only care if it's stuff i still use. One repo ive contributed a fair amount, only to switch to another lib bc it was a hassle to contribute to.
But i do agree it feels weird sticking to one solution for so long. I only made the switch after a bad interaction with a maintainer, and wow i did not realize just how much cleaner the alternative was. Beware meta devs lol, no matter thry just dont want to be wrong
No-Security-7518@reddit (OP)
Yeah. This kind came out of the rubble of Stackoverflow. đ
No-Security-7518@reddit (OP)
Mods of this sub are really lame.
ExperiencedDevs-ModTeam@reddit
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andru99912@reddit
I only looked at a githubâs contributions because I suspected the âcode ownersâ were chosen for reasons other than their competency.
Sure enough, half the code owners never contributed anything to the code base. But the second highest contributor wasnât a code owner.
waterkip@reddit
Only for posts like these. Current stats on github: 11 contributions this year.
Dijerati@reddit
I usually go through them and my emails from GitHub once a year when I need to do year end review. Helps me remember all the stories and things I did and crazy one off bugs and such