Use GitHub Badges to Feel Less Nooby
Impostor Syndrome is real, and it plagues new developers. We get all the way through a tutorial, bootcamp, or even a degree, yet we still shy away from sharing our code. We fear negative feedback on our code's quality. No one suffers more from this than self-taught developers. Because we don't have any "real" or "official" experience or training, we consider our code to be sub-par.
I was there a few months ago. I was working through Harry Percival's Test-Driven Development With Python. Even though I was following right along with the tutorial, I was self-conscious about sharing my code. Even though my app was working as expected, I didn't want to share my progress. I didn't want someone to call me out on some obvious mistake to which I was oblivious. I wanted other people to enjoy my product, but I didn't want them to see how poor of a developer I was.
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