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That's the catch - you don't improve as a sole developer. You can learn a lot, but actual improvement requires feedback. I advise you to start collaborating to

That's the catch - you don't improve as a sole developer. You can learn a lot, but actual improvement requires feedback. I advise you to start collaborating to Open Source projects, don't be shy. Everyone is welcome and I've personally found OSS devs to be a friendly bunch(exceptions always apply though). That will be very valuable feedback from people of different levels of experience and people in different positions. Leverage this feedback to improve yourself, but be ready to flush your pride down the drain.

tbrownaw 10y ago
That's the catch - you don't improve as a sole developer. You can learn a lot, but actual improvement requires feedback. Feedback can also come from "oh, that doesn't work as well as I'd expected". Feedback from other people is usually faster and more efficient (so I agree with the recommendation), but isn't the only game in town.
collyw 10y ago
Of course you can improve on your own. If I come back to my own code a couple of months later, and it isn't immediately obvious how its working, then its a good time to refactor it and think about what you would have expected to make it more obvious. My code gets better as a result.