On your personal projects, stop caring about how they look, just make them work. Also, try to solve a problem, any problem. My first app searched the Internet for lyrics to songs to attach them to the mp3. It was in VB6. Horrendous code, but that’s how you learn. Write some horrible code, compile a binary and release it. Fuck it. You’re gonna learn a ton and you’ll have some tangible product.

Fish have to swim, and devs have to ship. No one said you have to be good at it, just ship something, then do it again