You know what every senior developer does the moment they hit 5 years of experience? They build a blog. Not ship a product. Not contribute to open source. Not mentor a junior. They build a blog. And not just any blog. A CUSTOM blog. From scratch. With a hand-rolled CMS, because WordPress is for peasants and Medium takes your audience. They need MDX support, syntax highlighting for 47 languages they'll never write in, dark mode with three different themes, and an RSS feed that exactly zero humans will subscribe to. The blog will have one post. Maybe two. The first one is always "Hello World: Why I Built This Blog" where they explain their tech stack choices for 3000 words. The second, if it exists, is "Setting Up My Development Environment" which is really just a love letter to their terminal theme. Then silence. Forever. Meanwhile, the JIRA board is on fire. Production has a memory leak. The intern is deploying to main. But at least the blog has perfect Lighthouse scores. I'm writing this on my custom blog, by the way. The irony is not lost on me. It's just that my blog is BETTER than yours because I actually post on it. Shipping content is shipping code. Cope.