How Can a Developer Damage Their Credibility Online?

Dave: How can a developer damage his or her credibility online? Willie Ovali: I'm building a tiny automatic torrent downloader. Dave: You'll probably do it and like five people will look at it ever. So you don't really have much to worry about. And also, this might make you sad, but you might be overestimating the effect that publishing that will have on the wider scope of the internet.