I remember when I wrote my first application. I was young and inexperienced – an unskilled programmer trying to learn the ways of the Force. The code – ah the code! – was a real mess. But hey, the application was up and running. And I was happy to make things work.
At some point, I got interested in opensource. It was way stronger than me. But how would I embrace the cause? I’m not a perfectionist, but I knew my code – at that moment – was bad, and I was afraid of being ridiculed because of it. Reluctantly, I took the first step and published my first code in the wild. …