I think this whole expectation of develpers doing extra work in their free time, whether it's blogging, youtubing or open source, is what's broken in our industry. Especially, when it affects hiring. Not everyone enjoys doing these things, and not everyone (read women) even has time to do them.
My reasons are very similar to yours — writing is one my favorite ways of learning new things. And I've been doing it throughout my career for almost 20 years.
P. S. And writing is such an invaluable skill you'll use everyday as developer, whether it's a ticket description, Git commit message, or a code comment!
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I think this whole expectation of develpers doing extra work in their free time, whether it's blogging, youtubing or open source, is what's broken in our industry. Especially, when it affects hiring. Not everyone enjoys doing these things, and not everyone (read women) even has time to do them.
My reasons are very similar to yours — writing is one my favorite ways of learning new things. And I've been doing it throughout my career for almost 20 years.
However, my open source story is much less happy ;-)
P. S. And writing is such an invaluable skill you'll use everyday as developer, whether it's a ticket description, Git commit message, or a code comment!