Comment by eternityforest

Randomly here and there. Usually reading history before bed or doing Duolingo, and things like that.

I usually don't do any dedicated tech related practice time at all though, unless there's something specific that's obviously the next big thing, or that I expect to need in the future.

There's a lot of stuff I just... Don't need to know. I have no interest in making a new programming language, and I'm not particularly interested in less popular languages.

I don't need ten million tools to do the same job, I'm not much of a minimalist, I already know Git, it's what everyone else uses, I don't plan to work on VCSes, so I don't need to learn five other ones.

A lot of stuff I'm perfectly happy to accept as a black box. I love SQLite, but I've never seen the code. I don't know how HTML layout engines work. And I don't see how I could have any kind of a life if I insisted on learning as much tech as possible, as opposed to just a reasonable amount to steadily improve at my job.