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What are your hobby programming projects? I need some inspiration. (feddit.de)
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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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[–] furrowsofar@beehaw.org 3 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

A short list:

  • The current one is a Linux system backup tool written in Python that I use for my systems.

  • Recently worked through Mozillas PWA materials to learn how to make Progessive Web Apps. I need decide on what to do with that next. This HTML, CSS, JavaScript, pretty much. Put up a Python web server for some of it.

  • I have a security system that is tied together via various Python services. I need to work on that more.

  • A few years ago I write a big Monte Carlo financial simulation for retirement planning including taxes. Again Python.

  • A while ago I wrote a bunch of test code too benchmark all of the ways to make Python fast. Also looked a C extension, parallel computing, vectorization, GPUs. Some results not that intuitive.

I have a ton more.