*Writes magnificent class for company that makes code safer and faster. Nothing proprietary but super useful.

Me: yo boss I just wrote some sick shit, can I use it my projects too.

Boss: No, all your codenz belong to me

I hope my boss does not read diz, but I release most useful parts as github repos and put em into package handler, so everyone can use em

If you make something by yourself. Put it up on on github and then add it to your work, so your boss cannot claim it as IP (Intellectual Property). I recently made a multi-select date selector datepicker in which you can drag and select any number of days (in day view), multi select weeks (in week view) and multi select months (in month view) and it throws out the date range you selected. Plus you could pass some dates to it and it would highlight those dates (to represent something on those dates) , you could pass in a flag if you wanted a single datepicker or multiple datepicker etc.... guess what, i forgot to upload it to github first and used it for my work. I lost all that code. You cannot find a neat drag and select datepicker online anywhere.

My company has a github page, and requires all devs to release all reusable libraries there. Some data aggregation and decision making algorithms are proprietary, but about 70% of our code is open source.

You know why? Because the chances of competition copying our platform from a collection of generic libraries is quite low, our code is continuously improved for free — and we save 30k recruitment costs per newly hired dev, because we just pluck them from the contributor lists.

All your base are belong to us.