Yes, I've started doing personal projects as a therapeutic exercise.
My personal projects used to be about the end goal: making something that I want to make but don't get to at work.
Lately they've been more about the exercise: the sheer pleasure of writing code that's my own, that will always be my own, that works well and all lives in my head, even if what it actually does isn't especially new or interesting. It's like a digital zen garden.
My personal projects used to be about the end goal: making something that I want to make but don't get to at work.
Lately they've been more about the exercise: the sheer pleasure of writing code that's my own, that will always be my own, that works well and all lives in my head, even if what it actually does isn't especially new or interesting. It's like a digital zen garden.