As others have been saying, the "prolific programmers" have a passion to program that doesn't get satisfied by coding from just 9 to 5. Personally I tend to have waves of intense programming around the clock followed by a cooling down period with either part of the cycle lasting days to weeks. Sorry for the shameless self plug but you should start small and try making a "One Hour Side Project" http://kolodny.github.io/blog/blog/2015/03/03/the-one-hour-s...
Your comment glosses over the fact that many open source developers do this for a living. It's not some side project that they just do after work. Sure, they could put extra hours in, but open source is not just a hobby
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As others have been saying, the "prolific programmers" have a passion to program that doesn't get satisfied by coding from just 9 to 5. Personally I tend to have waves of intense programming around the clock followed by a cooling down period with either part of the cycle lasting days to weeks. Sorry for the shameless self plug but you should start small and try making a "One Hour Side Project" http://kolodny.github.io/blog/blog/2015/03/03/the-one-hour-s...
Your comment glosses over the fact that many open source developers do this for a living. It's not some side project that they just do after work. Sure, they could put extra hours in, but open source is not just a hobby
I wouldn't know about that. It sounds like the OP is specifically asking about people who contribute to OSS as "just a hobby"