I keep procrastinating & never touching my personal projects.
They’re things I built years ago in many cases. The tech is out of date. Some of my articles from years ago share code samples that are no longer relevant.
People have even asked me to update them:
Still, I let the projects languish & don’t feel like updating them.
Why?
I don’t have an especially good reason. I know I probably should update them, but it never becomes a priority for me.
Project maintenance is a lot of work! It’ll take me hours to upgrade versions of dependencies & rewrite the code so that it works the same way again.
Experienced developers are probably nodding along in agreement.
Maintenance is not trivial! Here’s the thing — I already learned the lessons I was going to learn from building the projects. Sure, there are other things I could probably learn from maintaining them. I’m just not convinced that the maintenance is worth it.