[mozman]

When I read the headline I thought this was going to be a terrible idea but I quite like it, especially the bit about using tab to list all your tooling.

Anecdotally I haven’t had many namespaces collisions recently. I’ve also let myself go a bit after going into management. My tech skills are 10 years too old.

Any tips from someone else on where they started to be hip again?

[L8D]

I think the hip thing to do is just use your spare time to build stuff, and organically learn from building stuff. Self-sufficiency, creativity and generally being a self-starter is what's hip. More time spent building translates into an incentive to pickup tricks and relying on yourself to find hip solutions to actual problems.

[d0gsg0w00f]

Also in "management", also feel like my skills will atrophy if I don't keep up.

What I do is make tools to make my life easier. For example, if there's a web service at work I use for mundane lookups I'll find out if it has an API and write a CLI for it to speed up my daily grind. Once it's tuned to my liking I'll share it with the team. I do struggle to convince others to try it. Not sure why. But I don't really care because I use the tools every day.

[james_marks]

I built my side project in a separate, trendier stack than the one I’m comfortable with at work for this very reason.

Just to see some new perspectives and be conversant in the trends.

Some of the new stack now crosses over to work, and I have a deeper appreciation for some of the older pieces.