I Don’t Know What You Did Last Summer

Even though the Earth has a little longer to go round in order to click into its Autumn equinox position, for all practical matters summer is now behind us:

Summer is a particular time in the year, where we tend to get more time. While the planet is being hurled at an incredible speed from its summer solstice position, things at work tend to go at a more laid back rythm.

The big question is: how did that time benefit you?

What you did last summer

Perhaps you went away and relax, which is cool.

Or pehaps you used that time to improve your skills as a developer. Or perhaps both, which would rank high in the scale of coolness.

If you did something last summer that helped you write better code, I invite you to share it with me (and the rest of the awesome Fluent C++ readers) by leaving a comment below.

That could be reading a book, reading an inspiring blog post, participating to an open source project, writing your own library, writing an app, writing a book, refactored your code, or anything else that you took some time to do.

For example, what I did last summer is working on the C++ pipes library, about which I wrote blog post in the past and coming weeks.

Why you should tell what you did

There are at least three benefits you can get by sharing with others what you did.

The first benefit is that it would be a shame to have spent time on a project and just move on. By describing to others what this project was, or what that book taught you, etc. you will gain a deeper understanding of it. That will make your summertime investment even more worth it.

The second reason is that it could be of interest to other people. Perhaps some people will be interested to work with you on it if it’s a software project, or read it too if it’s a book you learned something from. If you like to write, perhaps that could lead to a guest post.

The third reason is that CppCon is coming up. CppCon is a fantastic place to have technical conversations with people. By synthetising what you did last summer, you’ll be more ready to talk about it with other attendees, and have exciting and productive conversations.

And if you can’t make it to CppCon this year, then you can still go to conferences closer to you, or to your local C++ meetup, or just at work, and chat with people about your projects.

So, what did you do last summer?

Let me know in a comment below. Any project or book or whatever thing, big or small, that helped you write better code will work!

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