The Enthusiastic Start and Inevitable Neglect of Side Projects
Description
A four-panel comic strip illustrating the lifecycle of a developer's side projects. In the first panel, a cartoon bunny excitedly looks at a stall labeled 'Cool side projects,' which is filled with vibrant, healthy potted flowers. In the next two panels, the bunny happily chooses a flower and takes it home. The final, large panel reveals the punchline: the bunny is about to place the new, healthy flower next to a collection of grotesque, dying, and mutated plants, which represent its other, long-abandoned side projects. The new flower looks on in horror at its future companions. This meme is a relatable metaphor for the common developer experience of starting new, exciting side projects with great enthusiasm, only to neglect them over time as they join a 'graveyard' of other unfinished projects. It humorously captures the cycle of inspiration and subsequent abandonment that many senior developers know all too well
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My GitHub profile is just a digital version of this. Lots of freshly cloned starter kits sitting next to projects last updated when 'async/await' was still a revolutionary concept
My GitHub garden: one fresh bloom at HEAD and a graveyard of “initial commit” branches behind it - eventual consistency, but for enthusiasm
The only thing more consistent than my CI/CD pipeline is my side project abandonment pipeline - continuous integration of new ideas, continuous deployment to /dev/null
Every senior engineer's GitHub profile is essentially a digital terrarium of side projects - one meticulously maintained showcase repository getting daily commits, while the other 47 repos slowly transform into eldritch horrors of deprecated dependencies, broken CI pipelines, and README files that still promise 'coming soon' features from 2019. We tell ourselves we'll circle back to them after this sprint, but deep down we know they're already past the event horizon of technical debt, where even `npm audit fix` fears to tread
Side projects: greenfield microservices dreams crashlooping on the OOM killer of dayjob bandwidth
“Cool side projects” are greenfield microservices right up until the first schema migration or on-call; then they join the GitHub graveyard - one init commit, a slick README, and a CI badge permanently red
Shiny‑object - driven development: repo count grows linearly, maintenance bandwidth stays constant - so each new README promotes last weekend’s MVP to “legacy LTS” with a bus factor of one
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