Often a side project of mine will serve as a reference, or even provide snippets of re-usable code. I can now trace some snippets over multiple generations of

Often a side project of mine will serve as a reference, or even provide snippets of re-usable code. I can now trace some snippets over multiple generations of projects, slightly improved each time. In this sense code doesn't just grow vertically, even a dead project can yield code that grows laterally too!