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.

  • TikoBrown@beehaw.org
    3·
    10 months ago

    Started a couple years ago with a simple home network website using Flask to simply save/organize my notes.

    It has slowly grown into an entire eco-system that manages/records my entire life, from work to play and everything in between.

    • Music player that organizes huge collection of mp3’s, scraps the album cover artwork and lyrics, integrated converter (youtube,spotify etc.), playlist to stream/copy to any device, statistics on everything and dozens of other percs/tools/toys custom built.
    • Custom news, weather, sunset/sunrise, daylight savings reminders
    • Easy on the fly statistical analysis of anything with advanced and simple graphing
    • Easy on the fly AI, ML playground
    • Reminders, text messages for all upcoming rocket launches (scraped and rss feeds of course)
    • Manage my entire home automation setup/status/cams etc.
    • Dozens of music related applications for learning/practicing/recording/tracking etc.
    • Many, many more applications, just scratching the surface here but everything is automated, I don’t want to work it, just enjoy it.

    Sometimes I feel a little selfish for keeping all this to myself (my entire household uses it too) but I’ve been programming and building websites for decades and it’s nice to work on something that has no schedules or expectations and the cherry on top for me is zero worry about security or compatibility.

    • WasPentalive@beehaw.org
      2·
      10 months ago

      This is why I never became a programmer. I am retired now, but for the last 10 years, I have been a data center support agent. Programming is fun, I would hate to ruin that fun by having to work to someone else’s rule.