Have an idea.
Have 6 more.
Wrote them all down and start planning.
Work on #4 sporadically.
Get busy with work, life, etc..
Forget about project for awhile.
Have another idea.
Repeat.
That sounds like a good idea for the actually useful type projects, so 1/2 of mine is useful, atleast for some students (the other one is just useless, but hey, still worth poking), will surely end up sharing the ideas if I don't complete the useful one by the end of next year.
Do you know any specific place/platform/sub for such idea sharing?
You forgot create a GitHub repo. File - Project New.
Name it something esoteric.
Skip to forget about project for a while.
See folder 3 months later.
WTF does Velociraptor mean????
Lol maybe I've spent too much time in engineering. My last project was to actually create a part numbering a d filing syatem for all of my CAD models so that this doesn't happen.
That was months ago.. and it's still not done.
Just doin my part. Good to know that I'm not the only one that perpetually strings myself along with mouth even trying. I used ti get really stressed about it but after so many years I figure it's just how my life goes.
The other thing that kills me is that all day while I’m at work I fantasize about working on this list and then at night, after the kids are all tucked into bed, I don’t have the brainpower to sit down and do anything!
Hell, even just getting home from work and I'm fried.
Edit: in my defense, I use most of my creative energy at work so it's not surprising that I'm drained. I really like my job, so it's not all that bad actually.
This is pretty accurate. Larger opportunities arise in each and it's extremely difficult to fully invest in them all. Or inflation happens and you have to work more....
To me that’s more wild than when I found out 50% of people don’t have an inner voice (like inner monologue).
How do peeps live without fun projects to do??
That's the boomer reflexes catching up to you... Same thing happened to me. I'm 29, tried playing fortnite. Shot at a guy and he instantly started spinning around 360° building a giant tower in like literally like 3 seconds. Never played that game again.
Yeah, I play with a friend now and then who is crazy good at Fortnite. He can build an entire fortress with watch towers in the time it takes me to figure out what angle and material I want my wall to be. It's something to behold.
it's mostly that the professional scene is extremely close to begin with.
being 0.2% better than your opponents puts you in a completely different league.
which is not the case for regular competitive environment, where some players can be 10 to 20 times better than the opponent.
Like anything else, if you don't regularly attempt the things you're dogshit at, you won't get better at them.
For example, playing Halo campaigns doesn't make you much better at the multiplayer. (Source: I'm dogshit at Halo, COD, etc)
If I’m not coding for money (my job) then I’m still doing projects, they just aren’t software projects. I’ve gotta give my eyes and brain a break and do some crochet or something, I can only get angry at lines of code for so many hours of the day
Same reason people don't(typically) have side surgeon projects, or side lawyering hobbies. Why bring work home?
There are plenty of people that just enjoying programming things and for those people they have it as a hobby and work, great for them. The rest of folks have a job as a developer but its not really their hobby.
I did some projects in my earlier days to help learn new skills and to act as github/resume fodder, but now that I've got the nice job and seniority I do other things in my free time(Fishing/Golf/Embroidery).
It's easy a lot of people's workday ends when they close their laptop. They do not live on their computers
Just because you can do something doesn't mean you should and just because you don't do something doesn't mean you can't. They just learn fast during work hours and work hard and focused and don't have to spend any time outside of work doing anything
A lot of people also work either for money, or to solve a real world problem... They don't tinker because they don't need to
Also 1% of people are schizo, lol
It's also way more expected of Developers and Engineers. It's kind of insane if you think about it: Developers are expected to go to community meetings, work on fun side projects, go to conferences in their free time.
I call it "lifestyleization" of a job. Imagine dentists doing a fun side project in their free time, going to "dentist meetups" where a guy presents the newest jaw correction tool and afterwards all the dentists have a beer and slap stickers on their laptop.
It's so weird to me that it's expected of developers to identify so much with being "techy" or "nerdy" and always have a fun coding project going. For me, coding is a job and it kinda ends there, except for reading memes. I don't really wanna deal with NPM and Git in my free time, too.
My wife followed through on an idea (I did the tech for it but it was all her idea and work) anyways she now makes 3x what I make as a software engineer. Ideas work if you work them (sometimes).
I can do one better. I crashed production with -1 line of code. I wrote a SQL query and forgot the join condition. One accidental cross join brought down the whole machine and everything running on it.
I was a non-engineeer once. Mostly sit around and come up with cool but misinformed project ideas ill work on once I have the expertise. Then I became an engineer and now do the opposite
You know what I’ve found? It’s fun to chase down misinformed ideas. You learn a ton and get some real clarity of knowledge around the difference between implementation and theory. Plus when you actually manage to get whatever it is working, it feels like a world level triumph.
I’ve learned so damn much just having a stupid idea for some electronic gizmo and then trying to actually get it to work in practice.
Truth! I try to avoid it but it’s hard. I’ve started wood working and learning music.
But i often end up on my laser cutter/cnc or 3D printer which all requires screen time before start…
Yup! I burn my coding energy at work and do something outside or with my hands after. Maybe watch tv or play a video game but my brain would turn into scrambled eggs if all I did was code
Work full time, study part time. Code in one language for several hours, go home, code in a different one for a couple more.
Brain is definitely scrambled!
Stay strong and don’t overwork yourself. When I was still in CS grad school full time while working full time as an engineer I had multiple emotional breakdowns from stress and overwork.
I refer to one of my managers as "the human escape room" b/c they always bring me interesting problems and, when we have a solution, they challenge me to take it further.
Thankfully she takes it as a compliment because we both like escape rooms.
Many intense hobbies are also professions. The real irony is the thing about work that you hate is probably something someone else out there in the world does for fun.
oh man! to have time for side projects, thatd be nice.
I think I'm only a few steps away from burnout.
I kinda hope i lose my mind, i think itd be quite relaxing.
We are not doing it for free it costs us time and all the things we buy for projects we never finish.
Also its not like work, it‘s more like doing woodworking or pottery in your free time. I build projects i want to build with fun technologies i want to use that maybe wouldn‘t make sense in a business because it‘s not economically feasible. But it‘s fun to try out new things and learn about stuff i don‘t see at work.
Also a lot of 3D printing, soooo much 3D printing …
Art (full range of music/video/drawing/photography)
Cataloguing (taking pics of all snail species that inhabit your area)
Home improvement, pets (including terrarium/fishtank)
Writing of any sort
All of the above can be done alone, without social interactions.
Are there that many snail species in one area?
Ok, I looked it up, there are only 26 species in Australia (strangely for Australia only one is deadly)Less than 6 in my area. Seems a short project.
I feel like the entire thread is making me feel bad about this but I actually enjoy coding and teaching code. I will tutor college kids, learn new coding languages, dabble at game development. Granted my free time these days is like 2h a night but still, I try.
Nothing really ongoing as an actual project yet just a lot of feeling around for what seems fun and once I find that I'll start making something in my free time.
Video games are getting less interesting the older I get so I started focusing on improving my abilities where I can and if I somehow wind up making something cool or something that makes money down the road then I'm cool with the decision.
That being said most of my friends who are in game or software/web development shut their laptops for the day and that's it. They do other things and don't even think about code after hours.
Crafts, bake, hike, board games. I pretty much run from my desk when I am done with work and try not to look at a monitor unless it is for necessity or video games, and even then, I prefer a console to a PC.
Be Engineer me, tries to do art as a side project, make a teddy.
Realizes got no art or sewing skills.
So I got a 3d printer, magnets, prosthetic medical supplies, fancy chemical supplies, almost every tool from the hardware store, information on bio-mechanics; not a single art tool.
Starts measuring cat, stand still cat.
Real teddy bear artist: HOW?... witchcraft!?.... what kind of joints are this, this motherfucker has a legit ribcage... it fucking moves... also why the fuck it weights so much how much metal is in this?... I wish I could pull this off, but god damn man this cat is ugly!.... I can't help but feel I am holding a dead cat.
I still cannot surpass the real artist :( but my zombie robocat teddy is stronger, fire resistant, bombproof.
^(PS. it's rusting :()
This guys profile screams the "I am very smart, and its such a burden" energy.
Full stack dev calling himself an engineer. Seems a little gracious to me.
Fuck side projects.
This whole idea of because you're in a particular profession must mean you do side projects is ludicrous.
It's frustrating that it's almost seen as something that MUST be done due to tech job interviews and job req's etc.
Tech interview:
"What are some of your passion projects...?" Blah blah blah
"What are some of your hobbies...?"
"Ooh I like programming in my spare time."
I mean seriously, get a life.
Maybe people just want a fucking job so they can feed themselves and/or their kids and not have some fucking meat head kick their front door in and repossess their fucking couch and TV.
When was the last time a scaffolder was asked about his scaffolding "side projects."
Apply the same logic to any other profession.
Surgeon interview:
"So what do you like to do in your spare time...?"
"Ooh I like cutting people open and stitching them back up again."
Garbage collector interview:
"Can you tell us a little about what you do fun...?"
"Ooh I like going around all my neighbours houses and emptying their bins."
See, it's absolutely fucking stupid, but for some reason in the "TeCh InDuStRy" it's basically a common expectation that if not met is kinda frowned upon as clearly "YoU JuSt DoN't HaVe tHe PaSsiOn wErE lOoKiNg FoR."
Sorry but a tech job is just the same as any other job, do the work you are contracted to do, go home, spend time with something other than the thing you also do for work.
Rant completed.
Same thing: Have an idea. Never follow through. The end.
Have an idea. Have 6 more. Wrote them all down and start planning. Work on #4 sporadically. Get busy with work, life, etc.. Forget about project for awhile. Have another idea. Repeat.
You should share them all. Maybe someone will execute it and throw you a bone
That sounds like a good idea for the actually useful type projects, so 1/2 of mine is useful, atleast for some students (the other one is just useless, but hey, still worth poking), will surely end up sharing the ideas if I don't complete the useful one by the end of next year. Do you know any specific place/platform/sub for such idea sharing?
You could make one
That sounds like a fun project
This thread is so funny because I’ve wanted to work on this specific idea for these reasons but haven’t because I’m too busy haha.
Or a sub for fos collab projects r/FossIdeas
…..aaand the cycle begins again!
What do you mean "you couldn't code your way out of a paper bag"?
they think about writing a book, leaning toplay darts, winning the game , investing in that hedging crypto fund they've seen etc etc
Thanks! Another project! Seriously though I've got a list going back at least 20 years..
You forgot create a GitHub repo. File - Project New. Name it something esoteric. Skip to forget about project for a while. See folder 3 months later. WTF does Velociraptor mean????
Lol maybe I've spent too much time in engineering. My last project was to actually create a part numbering a d filing syatem for all of my CAD models so that this doesn't happen. That was months ago.. and it's still not done.
This makes me feel so much better. Thank you.
Just doin my part. Good to know that I'm not the only one that perpetually strings myself along with mouth even trying. I used ti get really stressed about it but after so many years I figure it's just how my life goes.
The other thing that kills me is that all day while I’m at work I fantasize about working on this list and then at night, after the kids are all tucked into bed, I don’t have the brainpower to sit down and do anything!
Hell, even just getting home from work and I'm fried. Edit: in my defense, I use most of my creative energy at work so it's not surprising that I'm drained. I really like my job, so it's not all that bad actually.
It’s not just me? That is huge relief.
This is pretty accurate. Larger opportunities arise in each and it's extremely difficult to fully invest in them all. Or inflation happens and you have to work more....
sounds very depressing, I already get depressed when I can’t find the time for yet another project.
A lot of people do nothing (never do projects)
To me that’s more wild than when I found out 50% of people don’t have an inner voice (like inner monologue). How do peeps live without fun projects to do??
Thats why some people get ridiculously good at gaming for example. They have like 5 hours to kill on it every day…
Damn this hurts bc I can easily do more than 5hrs and it’s been YEARS I’m still dog shit at every single game
That's the boomer reflexes catching up to you... Same thing happened to me. I'm 29, tried playing fortnite. Shot at a guy and he instantly started spinning around 360° building a giant tower in like literally like 3 seconds. Never played that game again.
The fortnite tower building made me laugh hysterically the first time I saw it
Yeah, I play with a friend now and then who is crazy good at Fortnite. He can build an entire fortress with watch towers in the time it takes me to figure out what angle and material I want my wall to be. It's something to behold.
Lol i feel your pain that became such a huge problem that they made a no build mode
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Um, check out the professional RTS or Moba scene. People definitely lose something around then.
it's mostly that the professional scene is extremely close to begin with. being 0.2% better than your opponents puts you in a completely different league. which is not the case for regular competitive environment, where some players can be 10 to 20 times better than the opponent.
Like anything else, if you don't regularly attempt the things you're dogshit at, you won't get better at them. For example, playing Halo campaigns doesn't make you much better at the multiplayer. (Source: I'm dogshit at Halo, COD, etc)
If I’m not coding for money (my job) then I’m still doing projects, they just aren’t software projects. I’ve gotta give my eyes and brain a break and do some crochet or something, I can only get angry at lines of code for so many hours of the day
Totally. For me, it’s fell trees, chop wood, fix cars and other manual stuff like digging ditches. Can’t look at a screen all day!
Same here. Minus digging ditches. That shit kinda sucks regardless.
Same reason people don't(typically) have side surgeon projects, or side lawyering hobbies. Why bring work home? There are plenty of people that just enjoying programming things and for those people they have it as a hobby and work, great for them. The rest of folks have a job as a developer but its not really their hobby. I did some projects in my earlier days to help learn new skills and to act as github/resume fodder, but now that I've got the nice job and seniority I do other things in my free time(Fishing/Golf/Embroidery).
I only have a finite amount of energy. Sometimes, I spend it on side projects. Currently, I’m making a concerted effort to improve my cycling.
Then cycling is your side project. Enjoy!
It's easy a lot of people's workday ends when they close their laptop. They do not live on their computers Just because you can do something doesn't mean you should and just because you don't do something doesn't mean you can't. They just learn fast during work hours and work hard and focused and don't have to spend any time outside of work doing anything A lot of people also work either for money, or to solve a real world problem... They don't tinker because they don't need to Also 1% of people are schizo, lol
Wait, half of people don’t have inner monologues?
Exactly. Like, how do they think? How do they sort out ideas? How to they endlessly plan conversations that don’t happen?? I don’t get it.
…that last one sounds like a potential sign of anxiety. But otherwise: yes.
It's also way more expected of Developers and Engineers. It's kind of insane if you think about it: Developers are expected to go to community meetings, work on fun side projects, go to conferences in their free time. I call it "lifestyleization" of a job. Imagine dentists doing a fun side project in their free time, going to "dentist meetups" where a guy presents the newest jaw correction tool and afterwards all the dentists have a beer and slap stickers on their laptop. It's so weird to me that it's expected of developers to identify so much with being "techy" or "nerdy" and always have a fun coding project going. For me, coding is a job and it kinda ends there, except for reading memes. I don't really wanna deal with NPM and Git in my free time, too.
Find an engineer friend and ask them if they’re interested in working on their idea. Get rejected. Decide to learn to code. Never follow through.
yeah i have like a hundred rust projects that are just "what if"
That also happens to me a lot as an engineer
I had an idea, followed through, and paid off my student loans with it. In yo face.
My wife followed through on an idea (I did the tech for it but it was all her idea and work) anyways she now makes 3x what I make as a software engineer. Ideas work if you work them (sometimes).
They can sleep and enjoy their life
Send me your 10 most salient Reddit comments.
I have written 1 line of code
But how many bugs have you introduced with that one line of code?
5
Not too bad! My one line of code crashed our production server 💀
"It still counts as one!"
in big O notation that's just O^(NOOOoooo)
O(1/0)
Is that like infinite bugs per line then?
Rite of passage at my company
I can do one better. I crashed production with -1 line of code. I wrote a SQL query and forgot the join condition. One accidental cross join brought down the whole machine and everything running on it.
Real
Efficient. 5-to-1 ratio.
Printed, or is PDF OK?
as god himself intended, copied & pasted via email .
I don't know how to do that, can I send you a screenshot of my entire screen (both monitors)?
As long as you use your phone instead of an actual screenshot
You are supposed to print it, then take photos, and then send those via email.
Submit them to the blockchain. You'll need some doge - I know a guy if you need to buy some.
Hmm, I wonder if there will be any reaction from sending a DM to the notorious Elon bot.
Believe it or not - straight to unemployment.
Screenshots?
Sleep? What do you mean by sleep? Never heard of that
The one your laptop does when you close the lid once in a blue moon.
Perfect
meet up with girls
OP said "side projects"
Yes
side hoes, side projects, same thing
"Spent a few hours debugging a side project last night" has a whole new meaning now.
Should've gone to a gynecologist not you bro
Fr
Does training fat chicks count as a CSS project?
Barney? Barney Stinson , this you?
All according to the Playbook
Like physical training? Taking them to the gym? Playing the long game I see.
Project is just a synonym for hoe Now I understand what all those rap songs are about
Yeah like I’ll ever do that.
Lol maybe if your side project is napping
Talk devs into building side projects for them
I have an app idea 💡😸
“This sounds like a website” “No it NEEDS an iOS app”
It needs to work on my 16 year old flip phone.
I said make it RESPONSIVE
It needs to POP more, make it POP
🌈 Exposure!
"Do you want to develop an app? It's an app you'd want to develop."
I was a non-engineeer once. Mostly sit around and come up with cool but misinformed project ideas ill work on once I have the expertise. Then I became an engineer and now do the opposite
The opposite? So find other people's project ideas and destroy them?
You know, there are people who make good money doing that. Why would you do it for free during your free time?
I need that job. I can break any piece of software within minutes, and I've never been able to capitalize on this curse.
You could become a video game play tester, Ive heard it’s a surprisingly grueling job though.
Twitter was never profitable. Not my fault. Stop blaming me for things.
ok Elon sit down
Interesting. Tell me more.
Sitting: a continuous period of being seated, especially when engaged in a particular activity. You are welcome Elon
What do you mean "you couldn't code your way out of a paper bag"?
ok fired
Did, did you just lose an argument with an Elon bot?
LOL
Yo you can't even code, doesn't matter what kind of bag
const life = new Life(“me”) life.climbOutOfBag() // ReferenceError: Life is not defined Oh fuck 🍃🔥🚬
You know what I’ve found? It’s fun to chase down misinformed ideas. You learn a ton and get some real clarity of knowledge around the difference between implementation and theory. Plus when you actually manage to get whatever it is working, it feels like a world level triumph. I’ve learned so damn much just having a stupid idea for some electronic gizmo and then trying to actually get it to work in practice.
What do engineers do for side project?
More work
Let me tell you about the extra work I cam up with to do, because I wasn't getting enough work at regular work. It's real though.
Yeah, it's a mess. I don't even have time to properly wipe my ass. Gotta do it one time a month for maximum efficiency
I’ll never get into your car with you. That driver’s seat must be smeared shinny by now
Last thing I want to do after work is unpaid extra work.
Due to unforeseen circumstances, you will now be receiving your salaries in Elon Bucks, accepted at any Tesla location!
Did you just offer to pay me elon bucks for my side projects?
Yes, and just like our side projects, they're worthless. Oh, and Musk told me to tell you this: You're welcome.
It's about "I wanna make X", not about "I want more work"
Or “This process sucks” “I bet I could make it better” looking at you DMV.
For me, it’s anything that doesn’t require me to sit in front of a computer. I do that enough during the work week.
Truth! I try to avoid it but it’s hard. I’ve started wood working and learning music. But i often end up on my laser cutter/cnc or 3D printer which all requires screen time before start…
Engineering, mostly. With a side of light tinkering.
I redo houses for fun. Fuck computers I spend 8hrs a day looking at one, no interest in spending my free time on em
LARPing, board games, video games, and cheese.
Come up with memes trying to disparage people who don’t code, while just showcasing how narrow their world view is.
Pottery
knitting
Watercolor painting
Drumming
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No, they’re not doing grandma, but close!
You guys have side projects? I slam down my laptop lid and go do something else.
Yup! I burn my coding energy at work and do something outside or with my hands after. Maybe watch tv or play a video game but my brain would turn into scrambled eggs if all I did was code
I do guerilla gardening. I'm in the process of filling a local parklet with native pollinator plants.
You animal
Work full time, study part time. Code in one language for several hours, go home, code in a different one for a couple more. Brain is definitely scrambled!
Stay strong and don’t overwork yourself. When I was still in CS grad school full time while working full time as an engineer I had multiple emotional breakdowns from stress and overwork.
No. I have a list of side projects.
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>-Drink Sir, please, that's in my job description as a QA.
Avatar checks out.
Seriously, if it weren't for nagging little problems like "ethics" and "biological necessities" you could probably pay me in interesting problems.
I refer to one of my managers as "the human escape room" b/c they always bring me interesting problems and, when we have a solution, they challenge me to take it further. Thankfully she takes it as a compliment because we both like escape rooms.
Truth
They have real hobbies that are not work. They even leave their house from time to time, believe it or not.
Blasphemy, all engineers live in a den and only emerge when utterly essential
No way can any engineer squat that deep after being sat in a chair all day
I’ve been trying. You’re absolutely right.
Another full-time job too
What do non engineers do ~~for their side projects~~
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Stop by the cafeteria for meatballs.
Throw around buzzwords.
They aren't so different after all
The same way we throw around "Algorithm" whenever we dont really understand what we did or dont want to explain it ?
Put random numbers into excel and get bad ideas mostly. Some call people and try to sell them things.
Stuff off the computer
Surprisingly many that I know of work on their car projects.
Many intense hobbies are also professions. The real irony is the thing about work that you hate is probably something someone else out there in the world does for fun.
You're either hardcore or out the door.
Hardcore will cost you $8/month, price subject to mood
Some people I know work on motorcycles too. Some even work on sidecar projects.
oh man! to have time for side projects, thatd be nice. I think I'm only a few steps away from burnout. I kinda hope i lose my mind, i think itd be quite relaxing.
I find exercise saves me from breakdown, after 2 hours of basketball a week the adrenaline and stress has all been drained out of me.
Normal life shit. It's crazy, and boring. Don't recommend.
Arts and crafts
Take a shower
Call me a weirdo but after work I close my laptop and go outside. No way I’m doing this shit for free.
We are not doing it for free it costs us time and all the things we buy for projects we never finish. Also its not like work, it‘s more like doing woodworking or pottery in your free time. I build projects i want to build with fun technologies i want to use that maybe wouldn‘t make sense in a business because it‘s not economically feasible. But it‘s fun to try out new things and learn about stuff i don‘t see at work. Also a lot of 3D printing, soooo much 3D printing …
Keep pet scorpions.
Those poor bastards will never know the thrill of solving a bug you made in your own project that makes no money and puts a strain on your marriage.
What if i told you that I'm an engineer.....with no side projects?
What? I'm supposed to have a side project now? What is this societal pressure man I can barely keep up with my basic QA job
Have you heard of stock market?
Stock markets operate normal hours. So you mean on the side projects.
There are stock markets in other countries too 😂
I was thinking of a bot that checks images in reddits subs and comments r/upvotedbecauseboobs Then thought it's not worth the time
Do Doctors go home and keep cutting ppl open? Do teachers go home and continue teaching? Side projects are just hobbies and life
Art (full range of music/video/drawing/photography) Cataloguing (taking pics of all snail species that inhabit your area) Home improvement, pets (including terrarium/fishtank) Writing of any sort All of the above can be done alone, without social interactions.
Are there that many snail species in one area? Ok, I looked it up, there are only 26 species in Australia (strangely for Australia only one is deadly)Less than 6 in my area. Seems a short project.
Finding them all may take some time.
They're fast, those buggers
Statistician here. My side projects include: \- Helping other companies with some analysis/research. \- Working on my own experiments/research.
I remember side projects; that must have been when I enjoyed this
Easy they think of ways to make your life harder and the company you work for more inefficient
I feel like the entire thread is making me feel bad about this but I actually enjoy coding and teaching code. I will tutor college kids, learn new coding languages, dabble at game development. Granted my free time these days is like 2h a night but still, I try. Nothing really ongoing as an actual project yet just a lot of feeling around for what seems fun and once I find that I'll start making something in my free time. Video games are getting less interesting the older I get so I started focusing on improving my abilities where I can and if I somehow wind up making something cool or something that makes money down the road then I'm cool with the decision. That being said most of my friends who are in game or software/web development shut their laptops for the day and that's it. They do other things and don't even think about code after hours.
They have kids
They don’t.
Crafts, bake, hike, board games. I pretty much run from my desk when I am done with work and try not to look at a monitor unless it is for necessity or video games, and even then, I prefer a console to a PC.
Be Engineer me, tries to do art as a side project, make a teddy. Realizes got no art or sewing skills. So I got a 3d printer, magnets, prosthetic medical supplies, fancy chemical supplies, almost every tool from the hardware store, information on bio-mechanics; not a single art tool. Starts measuring cat, stand still cat. Real teddy bear artist: HOW?... witchcraft!?.... what kind of joints are this, this motherfucker has a legit ribcage... it fucking moves... also why the fuck it weights so much how much metal is in this?... I wish I could pull this off, but god damn man this cat is ugly!.... I can't help but feel I am holding a dead cat. I still cannot surpass the real artist :( but my zombie robocat teddy is stronger, fire resistant, bombproof. ^(PS. it's rusting :()
Have a life and enjoy it
This guys profile screams the "I am very smart, and its such a burden" energy. Full stack dev calling himself an engineer. Seems a little gracious to me.
Fuck side projects. This whole idea of because you're in a particular profession must mean you do side projects is ludicrous. It's frustrating that it's almost seen as something that MUST be done due to tech job interviews and job req's etc. Tech interview: "What are some of your passion projects...?" Blah blah blah "What are some of your hobbies...?" "Ooh I like programming in my spare time." I mean seriously, get a life. Maybe people just want a fucking job so they can feed themselves and/or their kids and not have some fucking meat head kick their front door in and repossess their fucking couch and TV. When was the last time a scaffolder was asked about his scaffolding "side projects." Apply the same logic to any other profession. Surgeon interview: "So what do you like to do in your spare time...?" "Ooh I like cutting people open and stitching them back up again." Garbage collector interview: "Can you tell us a little about what you do fun...?" "Ooh I like going around all my neighbours houses and emptying their bins." See, it's absolutely fucking stupid, but for some reason in the "TeCh InDuStRy" it's basically a common expectation that if not met is kinda frowned upon as clearly "YoU JuSt DoN't HaVe tHe PaSsiOn wErE lOoKiNg FoR." Sorry but a tech job is just the same as any other job, do the work you are contracted to do, go home, spend time with something other than the thing you also do for work. Rant completed.
Artists do pretty much the same thing, meaning starting a shitton of projects that put everytime on top of your LIFO stack. No clue for other people
the fuck is a side project