> As a coder, you have the ability to create almost anything. How can that knowledge not tempt you to create something yourself? Oh, it definitely does, but...

> As a coder, you have the ability to create almost anything. How can that knowledge not tempt you to create something yourself? Oh, it definitely does, but... The stuff I wrote during school, in Turbo Pascal, is just too old and completely unrelated to what I do for living now. I also have hobbies other than programming. Since I started spending 8 hours a day coding at work, I usually spend my afternoons doing the other things that interest me. When else should I be doing them? And now I have small kids, so there is almost no free time anyway. The projects I did in previous jobs, I don't own the code. I was never paid to work on an open-source project. ...and this is why I don't have anything to show you on Github. Not because I don't care about programming, but because I also have a life. (Perhaps that is a competitive disadvantage. Well, I can still find a job regardless.) Yeah, I could choose to just ignore everything for a few weeks or months, and build something on Github instead, just to get that extra point at an interview, but it would feel like building a Potemkin village. Unless really necessary, I would prefer not to do that. I hope this makes sense.