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Discussion on: Personal projects. Do you work on them? Have you finished one?

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Louis Low • Edited

I wanna play the game! I wanna play the game! Here I come...

Do (or did you) you work on personal projects? Why?

Yes, I did tons of fully completed personal projects. Workplace projects are usually boring compare to a personal project that I can choose which topic I like to start with. I can polishing skills and use my most comfortable quirks in the development, in the company has its own culture and rules, I cannot have 100% ideal environment setup to maintaining my constant working and thinking rhythms.

Are they small or medium/large?

I build a variety of small to enormously large projects, and I can apply my own version of perfectionism on the projects, while in the company, I do not have that kind of luxury. Usually, my personal projects are way awesome than I built for the company, due to many restrictions, rules and culture.

How many years of experience in development do you have?

Over 10+ years, adopting several different industries, from the embedded platform (electronic, firmware, UI) to modern web development.

Do you tend to start and abandon these projects? Why?

For an experienced developer, people know how to manage, even know how to start and end the project with well-documentation. A the same time, creating a community for the project. Still, haven't mentioned about the Passion yet.

Have you completed at least one personal project? Was it successful?

I completed every single personal project with love. All successful.

What's your process? Do you start with coding or any investigation?

Both or any at the same time.

Visit my portfolio website and Github profile.