Comment by rednafi

> Good point. To what extent do employers even see this as experience, though? In my experience, they don’t care at all. Maybe I’m looking at this wrong.

I don’t know to what extent this is considered experience either. That said, the hiring process in tech is completely broken. There are companies that ask LeetCode hard questions for positions where you’ll just write HTML templates and React.

I work on side projects and write because I enjoy the process—not because I’m fishing for potential employers. In the past half-decade, I’ve written close to 200 articles. Researching for them was immensely helpful in building knowledge. At the start, I didn’t care if anyone read them. But eventually, the site got traction, and now it forces me to try new things and keep my skillset sharp. This works as a positive feedback loop.