Open Source Development and Starting a new Job

If you are looking at my GitHub Timeline, it's pretty easy to spot the moment I've started a new job. It's usually when commits very suddenly drop to a zero:

GitHub Timeline of 2024

I am alive and well!

Starting a new job is always an intense experience and overwhelming at times.

You are getting to know the company, team, domain, processes, code, libraries and frameworks. And you are sitting by the campfire, with elderly developers passing on stories to the next generation.

GitHub Timeline of 2024

Now things settle down, the family has adapted to the rhythm and there's time. But at the moment I am in a situation, where code I am writing at work is somewhat closely related to my open source code.

I don't want to accidentally reuse code written for my employer. So maybe I'll try something new for these pages and write about other aspects of programming instead. It'll take some time to work it out.

It would be interesting to know, how other people handle this situation?