It’s also really refreshing to see a project done for the love, the passion, the fun.
There was a question the other day about how come people, especially programmers, don’t have as much hobbies or frivolous projects anymore.
It feels like many projects nowadays are done with some ulterior motive or motivation such as buffing up your resume, ego, credibility, employment potential, or startup funding. This affects the priorities and level of polish you put into certain things
I agree with you. Last weekend I had the same realisation and thought how that as a programmer it's comparatively very easy to make weird stuff for fun. But somehow we rarely do.
I made a page that converts sentences to GIFs a couple of years ago[^1]. I remember how I revelled in the fact that I could create absurd stuff likes this out of nothing.
There was a question the other day about how come people, especially programmers, don’t have as much hobbies or frivolous projects anymore.
It feels like many projects nowadays are done with some ulterior motive or motivation such as buffing up your resume, ego, credibility, employment potential, or startup funding. This affects the priorities and level of polish you put into certain things