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I've loved to code since I learned how on my C=64. I don't have a github full of side projects. The code I write at home is one off stuff for learning and keep
by JustSomeNobody 9y ago
I've loved to code since I learned how on my C=64. I don't have a github full of side projects. The code I write at home is one off stuff for learning and keeping up, not some rehash of "twitter in a weekend".
Some company that doesn't want me because I don't have side projects, that's fine, they saved me the trouble.
- eropple 9y agoThis feels reductive. Why do side projects have to be "Twitter in a weekend"? My current side project is a Rack framework for making OpenAPI3-first APIs. "It's certainly not Twitter in a weekend." I learned Swagger/OpenAPI 2.0, so I used grape-swagger; found it frustrating and limited to OpenAPI 2.0 so now I'm using OpenAPI 3.0 and writing `Modern` to properly embed my understanding of it. If I were looking for a job (I'm not), I would fully expect that this speaks to my understanding of and my comfort with designing and implementing good APIs.
- lsadam0 9y agoWhy not just put all of this learning code online? A side project doesn’t have to be Twitter in a weekend.
- JustSomeNobody 9y agoBecause cleaning it up would waste time I could be spending learning other things, and I don't want people looking at it to think I code like this when I'm getting paid to do it.
- lsadam0 9y agoJust from my point of view: Code that is a bit on the messy side is perfectly fine if the qualification of "This is a learning exercise" is attached.