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I work on them during work hours - on my own gear, as I desire, just never in the office. I used to feel bad about it - I don't.

The reality is that in tech, we work all sorts of hours, all over the place, on all sorts of things. Part of the trade off is recognizing that whilst I happily have a rather long work-week, it doesn't mean that I need to ALWAYS give the best hours of the day to the corporation (and it's my corporation).

I also find that it benefits my company. I frequently bring in ideas from the things I've been experimenting with to work. We actually rely on several of them now.

tl;dr it's the time of day that matters a lot more than the environment.