This is what most of my GitHub repositories look like:
A few of my projects have a dozen or so stars, but my work is largely unknown. My most po...
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My repositories look like that too: empty and forgotten. But the knowledge gained is most important.
Practice and regular output are key to learning and creativity. The best engineers and artists (I would argue) were almost always the most prolific. Only a portion of the output was used/admired, but the rest formed the bedrock!
Same here. We as developers need to constantly practice our craft/art/essence or we risk getting rusty or bored.
As in the Medium articles, Often Be Coding or Always Be Coding.
100% agree, I think the regular fail then learn step is not only productive, but necessary to earn experience faster and to compare tools to know which one does the job better for a given project.
I like how personal projects can also be seen as a showroom for "what I can build" projects.
I think you can definitively appreciate the evolution of thought of someone if he is enough active on his open source projects, and this is the most amazing thing.
Very true that even if you didn't complete what you're working on during your spare time, it's valuable if you learned something new.