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Discussion on: Do I need to code in my free time to be a good developer?

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Sylvain Corsini

I'm often working at home on personal or open-source projects because I love that.
Some of my dev friends stop coding once they pass their office door, and, yeah, I understand it !

We're all human, a job is a job, not our life !

You don't put that sort of pressure on other jobs so why you do it for devs ?
You won't say to a HR (Human Resources, I don't know if we call them like that in english) to work from their home to be a good HR... It makes no sense why it does for a dev ?
If a dev don't work at home, it doesn't mean he's not a passionate. Even footballers don't do football on their spare time.

Personally, I am very passionated into the open-source world and I can't afford my time for it during my office-time since "it's not my job". So I did it at home when I don't have anything else to do like, you know, social things for example.
Passing my own office doors, "code" and "dev" is not anymore in my language when talking with people even with devs-one (except in a meetup or when coding at home ofc).