[Insanity]

Side projects are probably the most fun that can be had with programming, not just for the freedom of requirements but also because you can build something you truly enjoy building.

I'm lucky to be writing fun code at work - most of the time -, but the side projects keep me sane for many reasons. Not having to deal with 'bad' code that I didn't write, is also a nice benefit. All the bad code in my personal projects is mine, so no one else to blame :D

EDIT: typos and delete possibly negative statement

[EugeneOZ]

Bs, nobody will read your code. 1 per 10 000 maybe. And even that 1 will be polite enough. Don't spread this bs - people shouldn't be afraid of shaming when they have some code to publish.

[Insanity]

That's why I put the `/s` there. I wasn't being serious, and hope that most people got that. If not, my apologies. I constantly commit my toy projects and the few that got some viewers / comments were all polite indeed.

EDIT: I have deleted the original statement. After your comment it made me think that it might involuntarily scare people from sharing things in the open source world, which is not my intention.