HACKER Q&A
📣 jimws

What hobby projects do you work on after your 8-hour workday?


I have recently begun to feel that my day job does not give me the satisfaction I once used to get. More and more stuff is moving to AWS. More and more stuff gets automated. Instead of using my computer science skills that I once used to love, I now spend my time figuring out and groking the idiosyncratic design decisions made in AWS, Kubernetes, etc. They are not pretty. They are not elegant. I would like to work on some hobby projects again where I can explore the joy of computing again. But I have a full time day job and a family. I can spend maybe 1 hour or 2 hour max per day. So looking around for ideas.


  👤 new_guy Accepted Answer ✓
> I now spend my time figuring out and groking the idiosyncratic design decisions made in AWS, Kubernetes, etc. They are not pretty. They are not elegant.

Improving them for yourself sounds like an ideal project.