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What are your hobby programming projects? I need some inspiration. (feddit.de)

submitted 1 year ago by eight_byte@feddit.de to c/programming@beehaw.org

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I would like to know what your hoppy coding project are. It doesn’t really have to serve a purpose, but what are you coding on in your free time that just is fun to you and you enjoy working on?

As a background: I am an experienced programmer and do earn my money with it. In my free time I always enjoyed trying out new stuff related to technology, learn new things and improve my skills by doing so. But lately I recognise that I just have no clue what I should do or what a fun toy project I could work on. I really have no ideas. My head just feels completely empty whenever I open my IDE.

So please, tell me what you are coding on for fun.

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[–] eight_byte@feddit.de 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Yea doing some FOSS contributions definitely was something I always was considering. But then as soon as I was looking for the right project things started to get complicated again. And even if you find a cool project you look into the issue list and imposter-syndrome starts kicking in.

[–] marco@beehaw.org 1 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Been working in IT since 1997. Imposter syndrome sucks.

That being said, contributing to FOSS can be as little as helping others in a Linux forum, validating bug reports, etc before you file your first pull request 😁