Asklemmy

I write software for fun and give it away. I also write software for money and don't give it away.

So many

Homelab

Buy broken electronics, repair, resell (so like microsoldering, diagnosing, etc)

Woodworking but I’m bad at it

Cooking

Music but I’m bad at it

3d printing/cad but I’m bad at cad

Language study 日本語

Pcb design and some coding related to this but I’m bad at it

It’s why I get the anti work people. If I could change careers every few years I would. I love learning about new stuff. I post a lot but most of the time I do that is either when I have idle time at work, before or right after work (although sometimes it leaks into weekends). I hate the phrase jack of all trades master of none, it’s cool to know about a lot of things (as long as you recognize the limitations of your knowledge)

Fixing bikes. But if I had to do it for a job, under time pressure, I'd hate it. Give me all afternoon to fix a bike and let me put on a 5 hour podcast about the collapse of the Aztec empire, that's my happy place

Sex

I make espresso.

Self hosting, I guess it makes me an IT person as a hobby?

Photography.

I've been doing it for a long time and I'm still somewhat mediocre. It could theoretically make me money, but for me the excuse for not doing it boils down to "but it would require me to deal with people", given that most sought-after and commercially viable things to shoot are weddings, graduations and so on. In the end I keep it as something I (mostly) enjoy and occasionally do as favours to friends and family. I mostly shoot live music in order to support the local scene; I also do extreme sports and a bit of wildlife & landscapes.

I make pretty good beer and pretty shit furniture.

I do almost the same thing as a(n unpaid) hobby that I do as my (paid) job. I'm a software developer who writes open-source software on the side.

I've also seen a few of my other hobbies grow into serious industries with real employees. The (hobby) drone industry and the 3D printing industry are quite large and growing (I assume).

Linux Sysadmin here.

I have a couple open source apps/scripts that have tens of stars and ones of forks. I'm also getting into micro soldering to fix electronics. Mostly for myself but I'll hardmod or fix friends equipment for cost of parts. I've been known to buy a broken console, fix it, mod it, then sell it for some extra cash to buy more soldering equipment.

I fix all the tech at work because our IT department is dog trash and not fixing something when I know how feels like bees in my brain. Does that count as a hobby? :/

I also sometimes cook food in a more elaborate way than necessary which I've heard some people get paid for

I write screenplays for fun.

I've written a bunch of short films and one day maybe one will get produced.

I'm also kind working on a historical drama feature film.

I really enjoy the creative process and don't truly care if I ever sell one it get one produced.

I find distressed audio equipment and bring them back to life.

Here is a photo of some of the pieces I've worked on:

Top Shelf:

Adcom GP-555 It's actually dead. I cannot get the left channel to work at all. Resoldered the entire signal path, replaced the opamps, cleaned the controls, bypassed the controls.. Just cannot find where the issue is...

McIntosh MC7108: On/off circuit issues. This one I didn't really fix, just bypassed the affected circuit, because I don't care about turning it on and off via a switch. I use it every day.

Second Shelf:

Carver TFM-15cb: Needed new lights in the meters and the input level pots cleaned. That is all the one pictured needed. I have another one that required the same things, but also had to recap it. The one in the photo will need new capacitors before too long. Great sounding amps, but not very well built.

Bottom Shelf:

Soundcraftsman PRO-PA2X200: This is actually an amp my wife has owned for over 30 years. The power supply caps went out and needed to be replaced.

Here is a photo of said capacitors:

A professional is someone who fell into the trap of turning their hobby into a source of income

Doing stuff with CSS

wrenching on my subaru :p during covid i pulled the engine. it was my first time ever pulling an engine out of a passenger car. i also pulled subframes and completely redid the suspension.

it keeps breaking, i keep fixing. symbiosis 🤝

Maintaining and modifying cars and motorcycles.

Astronomy. I have a big ass reflector that I use for struggling to find globular clusters, oggling the fuck out of Jupiter and the Orion nebula, and very slowly working my way through the Messier list*. I considered going to school for it, for a hot second, but I kinda really don't want to end up the fucked up publish-or-die academia world making less money than I do now but with PhD debt.

*I don't use a GOTO system. No judgement for people who do, I've even considered a GOTO mod for when I do outreach, but I think there's some magic in slewing on to target by hand.

Apparently I study timekeeping so much that I can program a clock on a graphing calculator without using any timer function.

It takes a fixed amount of time to alter a pixel on the screen, and when carefully crafted, the pixel clock itself serves as a timer.

I'm actually currently testing such a clock demo on my Casio right now.

Gaming.

Mechanic. I have the tools and know how to fix my own car so long as we're not talking about an engine rebuild, (and even that I could do and have done in the past, but it's a pain in the ass usually and I don't wanna). I enjoy the tinkering and troubleshooting. If it were a more desirable and high paying gig, I could see myself doing it for work. I also am IT support for my boomer mom.

Gardening or more specifically raising fruit trees. Right now I got about 50 citrus trees growing from trifoliate orange seeds. Once they're ready I am going to graft lemons and satsumas onto them. I'm not planning to sell the trees, rather I'll gift them to friends and family.

I also propagate houseplants and gift them to friends, family and colleagues. Since they're so easy to propagate it's almost no effort.

Influencer (I shitpost non-stop)

I brew alcohol and grow mushrooms(gourmet and non-gourmet)

According to my ex, I'm pretty good at defending the horrible actions of others in a conversation

I am developing software as a hobby that is fairly specialized in nature. That is only because I could not get a job doing the same thing. Fuck corporate monopolies.

I have a machine shop that I use for making things out of metal that are normally not made of metal (like a yarn winder).

Ice hockey goalie. I’m no good at it, but it’s so much fun.

I enjoy learning vfx through houdini, id be doing it still if it wasnt so annoying to get on linux (im not paying for it, that 260$ a year cost is for me ppl making money and id do it if I was)

Blender is hella fun, like the ultimate sandbox game, cities skylines with no constraints (except much harder) I think with more and more addons it'll be the perfect sandbox creative city builder. Like procedural roads, cities, procedural terrain, buildings, etc. When the laxk of freedom in those games dissapoint you just make animations, the end goal in some of these games like planet coaster is to have something cool to look at and modify freely, the economy means nothing, might as well make it in blender.

Apparently there are people who receive monetary compensation for drawing comics. Some apparently can even do that as their main job. That's what I heard at least, they seem to be rare.

Not exactly the same but Truck driving Simulation on PC.