Hi I’m Phil 👋, I’m a software engineer, and I maintain an open source push notification tool called ntfy. I’m also German 🇩🇪, and a big fan of 🇬🇧 & 🇺🇸, and a dad of two 👦👧

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Cake day: June 11th, 2023

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  • Agreed.

    If you’re doing this for fun, then don’t ruin it for yourself. Doing a course should enable you to do stuff you haven’t been able to do before. Just pick a project and do it. And then maybe you’ll use some of the things you’ve learned, maybe you won’t. You’ll never use all the things you learn, and there is always more to learn.

    I’ve been a principal engineer for a long time, and I still learn new stuff every single day. There is no end. Which is pretty amazing if you ask me. You can always learn more stuff, but you shouldn’t feel obligated.

    If you start a project, you’ll apply some of that knowledge, and it’ll stick much more.