bashful

Don't be bashful. No reason not to toot your own horn.

I prefer, "Don't be bashful but be nice." 2.

Let's talk up our successes instead of being bashful because we're "not SF".

They don't need to apologize or feel bashful, though I get why they would. It's a great desktop app.

Re 75%, don't be so bashful, that sounds like an opportunity to learn. but I understand the 25% bit.

Don't be bashful because as OP says, your readers won't be. Thanks OP for the one "please" post this week that everyone can benefit from.

A downvote is a bashful admission of the correctness of a statement.

Now on another level, I'm a very bashful person, so I have a hard time looking at people in the eyes when I talk to them. Therefore my eyes are pointed at a 30 - 60 degree angle downward towards the floor.

Funny how much less bashful they become when they have something to critique. It's much easier to criticize something that exists than to imagine something that doesn't.

Ever since, I have never been bashful. Even though proficiency and experience can carry you a long way, your biggest advancements often come when you go out on a limb to provide real value for a customer.

They're never bashful and are a great way to get really good really quickly This is explicitly advice to new programmers. If you're established and have people who want to pay you money, sticking to paying customers makes sense.

They're never bashful and are a great way to get really good really quickly. I'm not sure if you mean in a startup context or a freelancing, but both have some degree of urgency that don't promote writing great code and developing new skills.

If anything, I'm self-centered and self-absorbed, but I am certainly not bashful. I've had it described to me as this: extroverts work out solutions by talking, introverts work out solutions thinking. Meaning, I think internally, I mull over things in order to get them straight in my head, and I can work for days without speaking to a soul. But I am not shy, bashful or even remotely timid. I think people who use the 'I can't engage because I'm an introvert' would be better served by admitting they are shy and work on that. There is nothing wrong with having an introvert or extrovert mindset, and we need both in the world, but always equating introversion with bashfulness is a mistake in my eyes.

'None of that makes it OK to write a bashful title that should've read "Stop paying your ASP MVC JS tax" or something&%&." Bashful" means "shy," not "full of bash," as you seem to think.