That post made me vomit a little bit.<p>"""
The Ultimate Guide to creating a popular open source project in only 3 steps from someone with 10s of thousands of GitHub stars.
"""<p>These are tips to gain a person exposure.
Look at me I am famous. I have so many stars.
and all I did was write a 67 line Python code. yay.<p>You can do it too!!!!!<p>Marketing, logos, shiny, shiny.<p>You are hyper focusing on the wrong metric<p>To me, and I am too old to matter, it highlights a fairly substantial perversion
of the reason and motivation to create great software that you give away for free.<p>It sets you up to chase fame on GitHub just like people do in every other social medium, Twitter and Instagram followers. Look people love me!!!!
So excited in the quest for brief moments of stardom.<p>You get there by feeding the lowest common denominator.<p>What does the mass of followers want? How can i get 1000 more.<p>Oh they like my bikini shots. Ill just make it a little skimpier. yay.<p>They like the drama with my momma, Ill stir up some real shit tonight yay.<p>Oh I see the dig it when I go off cussing about politics and today Ill cuss like never before. Yay.<p>With this type of mindset, you will not create anything original ot beautiful.
It's a fast-food junkie stuck in a feedback loop with a race towards the bottom.
It becomes an unhealthy addiction.<p>I have 0 stars, 0 twits, 0 Instagram, 0 all of social media because I am a quarrelsome luddite. I would not get an account in any of those systems
even if they paid me.<p>It is a distraction. at best. more commonly an obsession and no good can come from it.<p>It used to be that modesty was a virtue.<p>A compliment from one my sensei when I was studying martial arts,<p>Honest praise from my Lt when I had the misfortune of ending up in the army.<p>The camaraderie from the band of brothers I discovered.<p>A professor seeking me and giving me some life changing advice based on a couple of my essays he graded.<p>Having one of my most respected "master" developers reach out to me to point out that I
had made some errors in my code, but he liked these two other things.
Meant he had actually spent some time looking.<p>Praise should be earned, and it should not be given out freely.
Seek it from those who really matter. The rest is noise.