Quote: "As somebody said, the best code is written when you are supposed to do something else." Not for me, my best code is when I write stuff for myself. None

Quote: "As somebody said, the best code is written when you are supposed to do something else." Not for me, my best code is when I write stuff for myself. None of them are open source and they tend to have better code than stuff I work for clients. Which usually means I borrow my code from my pet projects a lot when solving client's problems. That also leads to a nice side effect that over years I have a huge collection of personal code that I just copy/paste and I know it works. When I do a live session of creating a PoC the client even if himself is a developer gets lost in my fast switching of pages, copy/paste, my fast way of talking and throwing overwhelming information at him that in the end they just get lost. And one hour later a final "it's done, here take it" usually gets a "holly shit, that's awesome". When I hear that I know the client is mine.