我停止了在线表演，开始重新构建。
如果你从事软件开发或参与技术领域，就必须接受保持默默无闻的想法。在过去的几年里，我在Medium、reddit、dev.to、YouTube以及所有常见的发布平台上发布了我的工作和想法。这些平台适合获取短期反馈，但并不能真正让你出名——而且也不应该。它们奖励的是表现——你在一个看不见的观众面前的表现，而不是你工作背后的实际工艺或技能，以及你对这个领域的贡献。
真正改变我对自己工作的看法的是GitHub。几乎没有人会浏览我的个人资料，大多数代码库也不会获得关注。但代码本身在那里——也许这才是唯一重要的部分。如果工作足够好，它最终会在基础设施中找到自己的位置，找到需要它的人。如果不够好，无论在其他地方发布或参与多少，都无法弥补。
意识到这一点让我感到奇妙的稳定。我停止了在那些以注意力为中心的平台上追逐曝光，开始更加关注我所构建的东西的质量和实用性。虽然指标变得更安静，但它们更真实。
最终，在技术行业中，默默无闻是正常的。谁能说出所有参与Firefox浏览器或Openbox窗口管理器开发的人呢？即使作者没有成为人们熟知的名字，这项工作依然具有真正的价值。如果我所构建的东西最终能在未来的某一天帮助到某人，那就足够了。
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If you create software or otherwise participate in the technology realm, you have to accept the idea of remaining obscure and unknown. Over the last few years I’ve posted my work and ideas on Medium, reddit, dev.to, youtube and all the usual publishing platforms. They’re fine for short-term feedback, but they don’t really get your name out there—nor should they. They reward performance—how well you play to an invisible audience—not the actual craft or skill behind your work or contribution to the field.<p>The place that’s actually changed how I think about my work is GitHub. Almost nobody will ever browse my profile, and most of the repos won’t get traction. But the code itself is there - and maybe that's the only part that matters. If the work is good, it will eventually find its place in the infrastructure, find the people who need it. If it isn’t good enough, no amount of posting or engagement elsewhere will compensate.<p>Realizing that has been strangely stabilizing. I stopped chasing visibility on platforms built around attention and started caring more about the quality and usefulness of what I build. The metrics are quieter, but they’re more honest.<p>In the end, obscurity is normal in the tech industry. Who can name all those who work on the firefox browser or the openbox window mgr, etc. The work has true value even if the author doesn’t become a name people know. And if something I build ends up helping someone, even years from now, that has to be enough.