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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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[–] mayo@lemmy.today 1 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

I used a tutorial book to help me create a python text game, then I rewrote it and have been casually adding things. I sort of want to re-write it again in Java to see how it compares, I'm more comfortable with java so I'm hoping I could focus more on system design. I'm noticing that the more I add to the base game the more spread out my solutions become, so addressing that is the main interest I have with it.

A new project I'm working on is a simple web scraper. I liked building a lexer/parser in the text game and I think having my own web scraper would be useful.

I'm still learning so I aim for projects I can 'finish' in 2-4 weeks.

Oh and a windows notepad that looks like the windows notepad except more customizable. I like the idea of building utilities.