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Discussion on: What do you like to build when learning?

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Omar White

That makes sense. I don’t have an exciting project at the moment, so I was thinking I could maybe invent one that I could come back to when I want to learn new things.

I figure having a familiar project to re-implement might also be a good alternative to starting from scratch every time.

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Ben Halpern

There might be a live open source project you could fork and keep around as your test ground. For example, you could essentially download DEV and use it as a playground for stuff you might try. Like "how would the sidebar look if I tried including tailwinds into the project and redesigned in?"...

That just came to mind, I'm not sure how well it would work if you're not invested day-to-day... but there must be similar living production codebases in a lot of domains which you could keep around as a test dummy that could help put the new thing in perspective.