What hobbies do you pursue in your free time

My hobby is golf. Green grass, cool breeze, just you, stick and ball. Bliss. This is a good idea, you may not like it, but it's definitely worth a try! I recently bought a new golf cart with GPS, with a golf tag that allows you to monitor the pace of the game, protect sensitive areas, gives a lot of real-time reports and many other useful things, a very cool thing. Here's my advice, if you like golf and you decide to buy a golf cart, order from these guys - https://vantage-tag.com/, they do very cool things!

I've dabbled in each of these over the last few years, but COVID has shutdown some studios and cut back on how much:

weaving: I have a rigid heddle loom, and I've considered building a pvc loom. I'd also like to play around with tapestry weaving

generative art/creative coding: Processing/p5js, primarily around plotter art

metalsmithing: Did a class focusing on jewelry, but I'd like to dabble a little more in small sculpture pieces, especially incorporating the weaving

sewing: Mainly made shirts, want to explore adjustments to my own clothes as well

lifting: currently running a hypertrophy program. Probably do more conditioning/cross-modality training next spring

Looking to explore:

I'd like to pick up arduino for some interactive sculpture pieces

Lasercutting/cnc routing, once again to tie into some mixed-media sculpture work

So... we got a child. And that's it. Get's all the time we can spare. But it's extremely rewarding as well. Due to him I am back at drawing. This time colored pencil. Mostly pets in comic style since he enjoys watching and recognizing them in the end. By the way... drawing really forces you to concentrate and observe a lot the details.

I have a variety of hobbies. Maybe to many. I like to rotate hobbies to keep things interesting. My hobbies usually interest and complement each other in various ways.

- Film photography. Photography is probably the first hobby I picked up. I have a variety of older film cameras in 35mm and medium format. Planning to convert an extra room in my basement into a darkroom in the near future.

- Blogging. I have been running my blog for a few years now. Most of my post are long form on technical subjects that interest me. I don't post often though. Maybe once a month or less.

- Game dev. I picked up Godot about two years ago. I've been working on and off on a simulated life game since October. I spent this week redoing the UI and adding more features to the game.

- Arduino. I tinker with Arduino dev boards. Lately I picked up Forth and have been teaching myself how to program the ATMega328 with FlashForth.

- Weightlifting. I suppose you could call this a hobby too. Working from home has allowed me to replace my commute time with lifting and I'm very thankful for it.

- Mushroom identification. For anyone interested I recommend the books "All that the Rain Brings and More" as well as "Mushrooms Demystified" by David Arora.

- Journaling. I like to organize my thoughts in a notebook on a regular basis. This hobby is probably the genesis of my other hobbies as I usually develop what I want to do with pen and paper first.

I like hobbies I can improve my whole life and always pick up again after letting it slide a little. Currently, that's cooking, running, and chess.

Kettlebell. I don't have a lot of time, but 15 minutes first thing for me makes my whole day better. And I personally enjoy the whole effort.

Reading, learning, and sometimes video games.

In the last few years, I’ve realized my love for reading and learning.

I was spending a lot of time on Reddit, HN, and other news sites. It actually led me to discover that while these sites can be enjoyable in moderation, I can also just read books.

I mostly read non fiction - topics in human psychology, history, biographies, and also technical books.

I have too many hobbies and tend to rotate in and out of them on a semi-predictable cycle:

# beekeeping - 2 active langstroth hives atm, but have been on and off keeping for 4+ years

# bonsai tree cultivation - been attempting to learn this craft since I was 12yo. I'm still very much a novice but find it relaxing

# home renovation - custom cabinetry (built a new kitchen) - plumbing (new bathroom) - electrical (installed overhead lighting in house that previously was all outlet/lamps)

# retro computing/gaming: - making hw+software for rom dumping old carts - adapter boards for using old joysticks/gamepads on modern pcs

# farming / gardening - had a 1/2 acre plot but recently downsized to 3 8x4' raised beds, but grow most of the greens my family of 5 eats - been keeping 6-8 chickens for egg production for the past 7 or so years

I've recently picked up origami and love the need for precision

Playing guitar, it's a great creative outlet when I'm tired of staring at screens. I've been playing for ~15 years but I don't really consider myself a musician - I mostly play for fun and don't bother trying to learn specific songs most of the time. My favorite thing to do is put on a playlist of good music and play along to it, trying to find the key and then playing around with different scales.

There's a great YT channel of rhythm backing tracks which is great for this: https://youtu.be/lCiMlxfLjcU

- blogging - I'm trying to write as much as possible, but never ending feeling of being tired doesn't help

- being a parent of 2 - it's really time-consuming, but rewarding :)

- developing small/silly games with Construct 3

- working out in general, as I've planned to get back to tricking soon (haven't done it in 7 years!)

- playing games (very casually: Stardew Valley, Spider-Man on PS4, etc.)

- programming (some open/closed source projects)

Right now it's bouldering. It's been very fun, and I get full workouts without even realizing that I'm exercising

Just discovered Pickleball and it’s a blast. Easy to learn, difficult to master. And I never liked other racquet sports. And in most areas there’s lots of open play so you don’t even need friends to play with.

3d printing is a really fun hobby. And pretty cheap to get started.

Wood working is a good one I’m trying to get into but I still get scared of the power tools.

Building cigar box guitars ( and other similar ) instruments. Mainly out of scrap parts and wood I find.

Podcasting (software developer‘s journey), mentorship, house renovating... oh and 3-lively-kids

I would love some free time.

Video games: open world action/adventure like gta5 and Witcher. Plus Minecraft online (Reddit server).

Reading

Product building

Meditating

I like working on small visuals related to financial independence and personal finance. I use Tableau and other data visualization tools and libraries at work so this gives me the opportunity to experiment a bit more with new tools and get insight in a topic I care about.

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