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by rmk2 2725 days ago
~/Downloads/source/<version control system>/<project> for checked out sources of tools etc.

~/Downloads/programs for OS images, large binary blobs etc.

~/Development/<technology>/<project name> for development projects

~/Documents/<project name/company name> for documents relating to specific projects or customers

~/Operations/<server> for various files related to servers and infrastructure (manual backups etc.)

/dev/shm as a dumping ground for temporary files that I would like to get rid of with a reboot