Comment on open source journey - 2025 was a big year!
bus_factor@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
Holy smokes, you did all that in one year? Alone? Do you just write open source projects full time, or do you also have a day job on top of all that?
Comment on open source journey - 2025 was a big year!
bus_factor@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
Holy smokes, you did all that in one year? Alone? Do you just write open source projects full time, or do you also have a day job on top of all that?
fccview@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
Ha! I kept busy indeed. I am a full time software engineer, so I have a full time job on top of that, yeah.
Aside from the obvious “I work fast”, I had a lot of free evening time this year, won’t get too into it but my child spends a lot of time in hospital. These were a great escape for me (and coding is my hobby, so I mostly do that rather than playing video games or watching TV you know)
bus_factor@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
Sorry to hear about your kid, and I hope they get better! I don’t watch TV or play video games either, but right now my wife and kids consume the bulk of my free time. Not that it would matter, I’d never get to your release frequency if I was single either.
I’m more of a “refactor it 90 times before I deem it worthy and then spend some more time failing to come up with a name” kind of guy. I’m pretty good at working with legacy codebases, though, so most of my OSS contributions are patches to existing projects. That’s also easier to cram into my schedule.
fccview@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
Thank you :) and that’s still extremely valuable and please feel free to contribute if you feel like it!
I am a “fix it forward” kinda person, worked for a decade in digital agencies and even tho I now work as a tech lead in a slow-ish software engineering company I still have that hectic mentality/background, hard to shake it off you know hahaha
And yeah, I have two kids under 4, so I totally get the whole time consuming part, if it weren’t for my peculiar situation I don’t think I’d get as much done as I do now not gonna lie. AI also helps speed things up, for example I added translation support to Jotty and having Claude tackle half the code base string replacement while I was doing the other half felt like having an intern!!