professor_jeffjeff

Shortly after Google Glass came out, I learned that I could activate someone else's Google Glass if I spoke the right commands and was close enough. This allowed me to photobomb people proactively instead of just opportunistically, and I may very well have been the first person to ever photobomb in this manner since it was pretty shortly after it was released.

Good advice but you can work on other open-source projects as well instead of personal projects. There are a shitload of open-source projects that are hurting for developers right now. Also, contributing to the various frameworks that a lot of companies use already is a great way to have "experience" with those frameworks. It's not nearly as difficult to contribute as many people would have you believe; there's usually a "how to contribute" page for every project and some of the larger projects have specific areas or types of work that is dedicated to helping new devs get involved. This comes to mind as an example: https://kernelnewbies.org/KernelJanitors