I read about this hobby project yesterday and thought it was very inspiring. This guy wrote a scraper that compares the prices of groceries and it made a big political splash too. https://mastodon.gamedev.place/@badlogic/111071396799790275

Personally, I also wanted to try some new tech, and created my first android app for my daughter to practice her basic math operations many years ago.

Another option for you would be to find a FOSS project you like and contribute there (fediverse? Hint, hint).

My next project is going to be a terminal tool that takes lat-lon coordinates and a date, and converts both ways between angle of the sun relative to the horizon and time. I wrote a python script a while ago to get times for golden hour, twilight, etc., but I don’t like how slow it is, and I want to make more composable terminal tools that people can pipe together.

Currently, I am writing a Fluid Sim in C++ . I am mostly following the repo by Doyub Kim and the book by him called Fluid Engine Development.

FOSS accounting app. There’s like 2 out there that I can find, and I hate them both.

I’m working on a project that generates ideas for new coding projects.

I have my own music player written with Python, Gtk, and Gstreamer. I use it almost every day to listen to music during work

A lot of the actual coding/scripting work that I’ve done recently has been server stuff. I recently containerized all of my game servers with Docker and bash, and I’m now looking at switching from my current janky Minecraft Docker setup to a fancier setup with autoupdates for Paper and its plugins. I’m far from a professional programmer, so it’s been fun to actually hack together useful things for myself.

there was a fedi shitstorm recently RE: centralized blocklists so I tried my hand at a web service that would facilitate aggregating and sharing these lists in a decentralized and dynamic fashion and so far I like how it’s coming along

https://crates.io/crates/felicia

I’m hoping to build a frontend for it soon-ish

I work on the Jellyfin Roku client, a React Native Lemmy client, and a Next.js Electron Mastodon client.

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.

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.

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I’m creating an RPG in GoDot using asprite for resources. I’m about 6 months in and I find it so relaxing making assets and plunking them in. Whatever you do it should be for you is the golden rule. To often people want to inject themselves in or offer input thats sneakily what they want. It should be what your vision is, your pace and you shouldn’t answer to anyone.

I write a lot of spreadsheets for games I play, so adapting them into more sophisticated software is always something I chip away at. Good opportunity to learn how to implement concepts in new languages too. Right now I’m writing a Warframe simulator in Racket.

• make a boilerplate/starter project for something. For instance a java project that has a api so implement Swagger, json, some example endpoints, etc. That way, if I start a new project I don’t have to first configure it all and think about what dependencies I need to implement.

Or one for css or Angular. Just implement the basic style for buttons, text, menu’s etc and adjust where needed. A bit like Bootstrap but then more basic

• make a private website where combine all your (future) tools/projects. Like some calculate (km to miles, whatever), some links to other projects, a page to your servers/services (kodi, plex, sabnzbd, etc)