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Ask HN: For devs, what activity other than the job most improved your skills?
2 points by wnmurphy on March 9, 2024 | hide | past | favorite | 4 comments
What activities have you found to be the highest leverage for improving technical skill besides solving problems on the actual job?


- Reading tech forums for inspiration

- Explaining projects in layman’s terms to friends helps inspire different ways of solving problems

- Watching YouTube videos on skills that I want to sharpen


Teaching others / pair programming where there is a disparity between seniority levels with the participants.


Reading technical stuff.

- here, at HN

- lwn

- even reddit


This, plus...

- building a large personal project

- writing documentation for other's projects

- answering questions in slack/discord

(Teaching makes you learn things deeper)




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