Regular readers of my blog1 know I have been planning to write on my recent contract contributing to Quinn, the popular Rust implementation of the QUIC protocol. I originally intended to write a deep-dive into the QUIC features I implemented, but the blog post took a life of its own and ended up as a short essay on being paid to learn. Enjoy! Taking on the project When Stormshield2 reached out to me with a proposal to work on Quinn, I felt honoured that they were considering me for the task, ...