Bonus points if you manage to work on personal projects without leaving a trail IT can see on your work computer.

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    4 months ago

    Find something you enjoy that you can spin as work-related. I learned about sqlite as a potential way to store the lexicon for one of my constructed languages and it ended up becoming relevant at work.

    I’ve had similar luck with playing with raspberry pis and generic Linux stuff. I’m not just setting up a self hosted forum, I’m learning about reverse proxies.

    • compostgoblin@piefed.blahaj.zoneOP
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      4 months ago

      I dabble in Python, and I’ve made a few scripts that are really helpful and speed up my work a lot. I’m trying to figure out how I can develop that further, right now I’m thinking about learning VBA to make scripts to automate file sorting from my Outlook