For devs, what activity other than the job most improved your skills?

Question

What activities have you found to be the highest leverage for improving technical skill besides solving problems on the actual job?

interbased · Accepted Answer

- Reading tech forums for inspiration- Explaining projects in layman&rsquo;s terms to friends helps inspire different ways of solving problems- Watching YouTube videos on skills that I want to sharpen

notkaiho · Answer

Teaching others / pair programming where there is a disparity between seniority levels with the participants.

r_sz · Answer

Reading technical stuff.- here, at HN- lwn- even reddit

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?

- Reading tech forums for inspiration
- 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

Teaching others / pair programming where there is a disparity between seniority levels with the participants.

Reading technical stuff.
- here, at HN
- lwn
- even reddit