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?
- 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
- here, at HN
- lwn
- even reddit
- building a large personal project
- writing documentation for other's projects
- answering questions in slack/discord
(Teaching makes you learn things deeper)