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		Mashimo on May 7, 2024 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Coding interviews are stupid (ish) I think I only know a single programmer that does side projects. Work gives me time to look a new stuff and pays for courses. I mean I do have side projects, but those are all in a language I'm not specialized in and often single class small helper programs.

whstl on May 7, 2024 [–]

I'm often the only one when I work in smaller companies.

And the best developer I ever worked with had zero public repositories in Github. Now that gave me some perspective.

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