[jbschirtzinger]

I think most projects where a person is trying to learn something such that it builds on something else are often not understood by a person who is not on the same path. In the end, the tapestry formed is only understood by the one doing the journey and then in hindsight it all makes perfect sense.

[duxup]

I'm actually cleaning up my GitHub repos at this very moment. So much basic stuff not really useful to anyone, things that other people clearly have done many times better. Old messy code, new messy code .... but to me they're experiences and represent invaluable learning that I've done.

I look at some repo that is a mess, but I remember making widget X work and how great that felt.

When someone says they created something I always think about what they must have learned to do that something, and not so much about the actual something.

I get a bit frustrated when folks critique something about "Yeah but this other thing" and so forth. For me that's almost never the point...