redcalcium

Who cares if it already exists, just make it.

Also consider the possibility when the other, more popular projects got enshittified. Now the fleeing users have an option to switch to your project. It actually happened on one of my side project. I made it because I want to try building my own version of X. It got ~2000 users, but later down the road, X got sold to a new shitty owner that waste no time to enshittify it, and my side project suddenly grow to 20,000 users overnight.

Something is wrong, why do AIs get to spend all their time writing and painting while we have to go to work every day?

So that’s why the old unix programmers call their program a daemon

Based matlab programmer

Releasing open source projects has been the source of professional satisfaction to me. Just ignore people posting rude issues demanding you to work on something asap and instead do it at your own pace.