I have a bunch of small projects[1] that have a total of about 6k stars (with the top one having about 2k stars). Except for a few donations to my Buy Me a Coffee page, I agree that they don't translate to anything else.
All of my projects are tiny, minimal, and try to solve a small problem I encountered while doing something else. All of these tools were written for myself or my wife or just for fun! But I shared the code on the web anyway just for the joy of sharing! The joy of sharing code is something I discovered with my first encounter with computers while learning to write programs using IBM/LCSI PC Logo.[2]
The joy of sharing is the real reason for making my projects open source. In case it turns out to be useful for others, that's a bonus! If someone cares about it enough to star it, fork it, contribute to it, or send a donation, that's an additional bonus! However, my primary objective is to have fun and share the fun with others. In my opinion, computing should be fun[3] and open source is one way of the ways that computing remains fun for me.
All of my projects are tiny, minimal, and try to solve a small problem I encountered while doing something else. All of these tools were written for myself or my wife or just for fun! But I shared the code on the web anyway just for the joy of sharing! The joy of sharing code is something I discovered with my first encounter with computers while learning to write programs using IBM/LCSI PC Logo.[2]
The joy of sharing is the real reason for making my projects open source. In case it turns out to be useful for others, that's a bonus! If someone cares about it enough to star it, fork it, contribute to it, or send a donation, that's an additional bonus! However, my primary objective is to have fun and share the fun with others. In my opinion, computing should be fun[3] and open source is one way of the ways that computing remains fun for me.
[1] https://github.com/susam?tab=repositories&sort=stargazers
[2] https://susam.in/blog/fd-100.html#a-lasting-effect
[3] https://mitpress.mit.edu/sites/default/files/sicp/full-text/...