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Ask HN: For devs, what activity other than the job most improved your skills?
What activities have you found to be the highest leverage for improving technical skill besides solving problems on the actual job?
- r_sz 3y agoReading technical stuff. - here, at HN - lwn - even reddit
- verdverm 3y agoThis, plus... - building a large personal project - writing documentation for other's projects - answering questions in slack/discord (Teaching makes you learn things deeper)
- notkaiho 3y agoTeaching others / pair programming where there is a disparity between seniority levels with the participants.
- interbased 3y ago- Reading tech forums for inspiration - Explaining projects in layman’s terms to friends helps inspire different ways of solving problems - Watching YouTube videos on skills that I want to sharpen