u/Jediweirdo

Most of the things I code/program are for personal reasons, so I rarely ever contribute to open source projects. About 7 months ago, I needed a CORS wrapper deployed for an iOS shortcut I was making at the time. I found code online for an outdated CORS repo that I could use/deploy for free, but it was unfunctional and there were some issues/PRs about stuff. So, I learned how to use Cloudflare Workers, fixed up the issues, added some PRs, and even went out of my way to introduce Cloudflare-specific features that hadn't been used before (and updated the readme to explain how to use them). Sounds like a lot, but all the changes (outside the readme) are in 1 file.

After 2 days of on-and-off work, I submitted the PR and got 2 stars, 2 forks, and 2 people angrily telling me it was useless AI garbage (funny coincidence). The first guy I shrugged off as an angry guy on the internet. The second guy was the repo owner 7 months after I made the PR and they closed it without any other reason than that. Unlike the first guy, the repo owner is a C developer who has made kernel drivers and BIOS utilities. As a script kiddie who has done nothing remotely as important as that, I'm not so egotistical to think that I'm somehow in the right.

I'm probably incredibly biased because I'm the one who made the thing, so I'll link a gist to all the code I wrote: My "AI slop" PR as a gist. I won't link the PR branch itself because that might be considered "a final project or demo" and would break rule 6. Even now 7 months later, I don't know why the PR was closed without any comment to what specifically I did wrong. I think the worst 3 things my code did were:

1. I didn't know how to upload IDE code to Cloudflare Workers for testing without committing the unfinished code to the fork, so I ended up using Cloudflare's built-in workers editor and copied/pasted the changes to GitHub via the GitHub browser file editor whenever I made measurable changes. As such, there are a lot of commits.
2. I never made a code with the intention of it being viewed by other people before, so I thought I made a bunch of comments, thinking that too many comments was a better problem to have than too few. I didn't comment every line, but I did comment many of them (I think every function and most variables). Same ideology went into making the PR message, which is also kinda long.
3. I wanted to add a usage page to the CORS site, but every page's HTML and JS were in a single big file. So I put the edited README into a markdown-to-HTML converter and stuffed it into one big dictionary I made that housed all the HTML for the entire site (note that the "site" is pretty barebones because it wasn't made to be accessed by a human, so it isn't as egregious as it sounds). The HTML usage page was about 130 lines long.

But that's just what I think. Odds are that I did something a lot worse and just don't know. While I use open source projects and libraries, this was my first ever time "giving back" something other than bug reports. What do you think is the problem? If it's the comment thing, how many comments are "good enough"? If it's the code itself, what is done badly about it? I don't know, and it's eating away at me to the point where I'm hesitant to show my crap code to anyone ever again.

I'm deciding on a cheap monitor to get. One from Walmart and the other is from Amazon. This is the main difference between the two:

1. Walmart's monitor (TCL 25G64) has QD Mini LED, Native 300Hz, and HDR600 (which apparently is really good). However, the panel is HVA (according to the Walmart page) and the resolution is 1080p. Note that it says it's an IPS screen on the manufacturer's storefront, but they might have swapped it for a cheaper panel to price it down for Walmart's Prime Day equivalent. It's also possible that the people running Walmart's storefront are morons, because they list the display as QLED in its specs even though the title says the LED technology is QD-Mini LED.
2. Amazon's monitor (INNOCN 25G2S) has fast IPS, 1440p, cheaper price (by less than a dollar lol), but equal or worse everything else

Neither is bad in my eyes, but the one difference it does have seems like a pretty big one. I'm not too knowledgeable about monitors, but this seems like one of those cases where the trade-off for better color specs isn't worth it. Compromising on something as important as resolution like this could also be seen as "E-waste" to many. On the other hand, I don't think I've ever seen QD Mini LED, HDR600, and 97% DCI-P3 at this price point. Makes this seem like a beast. What are your thoughts?

Note that I have a 3050 Ti + AMD Ryzen 7 5800H + 16GB DDR4