I recently left my Job, and had some time off to focus on my hobbies, the one I love the most being Programming.
Since it’s just a hobby I decided to get better at it in that free time, so I made tons of projects.
During this time I kept implementing the same patterns over and over again.
I used to use all of them under a utils package, since I programmed in Go I figured why not to create a unique type of package, most of us do use this boilerplate daily but non of us likes to admit it.
Some will even use the boilerplate creation abilities he has to just fill in time during working hours.
While this is cool by me and everything it doesn’t really make you progress further or focus on what’s important.
Think about it, when you spend 40% of your time writing boilerplate, when will you really focus on designing the system or thinking about your approach? let alone write the code for it.
So what to do about it then?
So I decided to break every go package principle for this one, I decided to put all the boilerplate I personally use under one package, call it it and ship it to people.
Since no one will take me seriously anyways I decided to make it a laughable & good experience for anyone reading my docs (Just for the memes approach).
So I put my sarcastic mask on and spent most of the time crafting hilarious documentation jokes while actually attempting to provide some useful patterns ( to the best of my knowledge, I am a pharmacist after all, and this is a hobby ).
The big shock?
The big shock came when I posted it over reddit here, and people actually liked it.
With over 103K Post views, around 500 Shares and till the time I am posting this the Repo Got around 310 Stars.
I know, it was a shock, even for me, I even got one contributor alongside me.
What started as a pure meme out of some depression and my desire of preserving time for my family actually made a lot of people laugh.
If you don’t believe me go Read the post and the comments over reddit now and see for yourself.
While at it give my repo a read if you can, and if you laughed or at least smiled make sure to star it.
Maybe also leave your legacy with me and contribute to this mess together? I mean I am down if you are.
