> The average developer spends more than 7 hours per week coding on the side.
I don't believe for a second that most developers spend an hour a day on side projects. I'd believe many, but not most. There just isn't that kind of time available for many full-time developers with a family and responsibilities outside of coding.
I know I spend quite a bit of time coding for fun, but I know many people who do "not so cool" development at their day job who want nothing to do with code in the evenings.
> > The average developer spends more than 7 hours per week coding on the side.
> I don't believe for a second that most developers spend an hour a day on side projects.
"Average" here quite likely means arithmetic mean, not median, and the distribution of side-coding-time among developers is probably not normal, so its quite possible for the average to be more than 7 hours and most to do significantly less than that.
Yeah there's no way in hell the average developer spends more than 7 hours a week coding on the side even when taking into account people who code 4 hours a day after work.
I personally run for the hills and leave my laptop at work when I go home.
Or.... Side-projects could be your most important asset. I'd even argue that intentionally non-JS projects are going to help you much more than JS ones.
"Full stack"? Check. Hipster tld? Check. Argument based on scientifically obvious weak correlation? Check.
Well obviously this guy is going to think JavaScript is the most important thing in the universe. That's probably the only programming language he knows.
What a poor world that must be.
Obviously hobby projects are nice to have. But you should have them because you care, not because you need an "asset".
There's just so much to learn out there, so much fun! Why oh why limit yourself to the same old JavaScript?
Please don't post snarky dismissals, even if an article isn't very good. It damages the kind of discourse we're going for here.
Attacking the author, and not just the article, is still worse.
(I wrote this when your comment consisted of just the first three paragraphs. The stuff you added later is better, because it isn't snarky and responds to specifics.)
A lot of people make a good living building great apps that you use every day in javascript and a lot of people are trying to break into that line of work. For those people this article is both relevant and a decent guide. I hire Javascipt developers and guess what? If you are junior and trying to bust in and you show me a badass side project, you have a shot, so this guy isn't wrong at all.
I don't believe for a second that most developers spend an hour a day on side projects. I'd believe many, but not most. There just isn't that kind of time available for many full-time developers with a family and responsibilities outside of coding.
I know I spend quite a bit of time coding for fun, but I know many people who do "not so cool" development at their day job who want nothing to do with code in the evenings.