I believe the gp was talking about the year of unemployment referred to in the original post. I was laid off for about a month earlier this year and it was the

I believe the gp was talking about the year of unemployment referred to in the original post. I was laid off for about a month earlier this year and it was the most productive I’ve ever been, open source contributions wise. Pragmatically, I should’ve grinded leetcode but I couldn’t bring myself to do it. I was really enjoying the open source work though, a combination of react and lisp. I did talk about it during the interviews and maybe that came across.