I have been building Toph (
https://toph.co), a competitive programming platform. I have been working on this for the past 7 years.
The stack includes Go, MongoDB, Redis, RabbitMQ, etc.
Not only have I been gaining software engineering skills, I am also learning aspects of business and growing a community.
I am doing this, of course, beside my client work and open source projects. And, fortunately, my client work tends to be interesting enough and provide opportunities for learning new stuff almost all the time.
I don't know if it is true for everyone or if I am phrasing this right, but keeping myself busy actually building something/anything helps the most (instead of just chasing whatever is new out there).
The stack includes Go, MongoDB, Redis, RabbitMQ, etc.
Not only have I been gaining software engineering skills, I am also learning aspects of business and growing a community.
I am doing this, of course, beside my client work and open source projects. And, fortunately, my client work tends to be interesting enough and provide opportunities for learning new stuff almost all the time.
I don't know if it is true for everyone or if I am phrasing this right, but keeping myself busy actually building something/anything helps the most (instead of just chasing whatever is new out there).