Things my personal time gets spent on (in order): domestic chores, family time, reorganising spaces so we can buy more junk, TV, Physiological needs, hobby time.
Things my hobby time gets spent on (in order): thinking about programming, reading about programming, talking about programming, actually programming. I used to have lots of hobbies (tae kwon-do, gymnastics, amateur dramatics, archery, Land Rovers, attempts to make music, attempts to learn an instrument, swimming, cycling) and these have all lost their time slot. But I will not let go of my first hobby, programming, which I took up age 10.
Life is full and computing-as-a-hobby comes last. As such, there are things I’ve wanted to code for ages (30+ years!) and which I still fantasise that I will find time to do.
Things to code:
- 3D engine
- Simulation of driving dynamics
- Generate lots of things from little data (procedural generation as in No Man’s Sky)
- “Ant farm” traffic simulations
- Nostalgic recreations of the games I wrote in school
- Making use of algorithms that have always piqued my interest
- A course on “how to code”
- Machine Learning
There isn’t one particular ‘app’ that I’m yearning to write. I love to build tools, engines, and frameworks. I’m definitely more interested in how code works than what it does – and, even more abstractly, the philosophy of programming.
How about you?
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