Do you work on projects solely for your own use?

> What kinds of projects are you working on that you have no intention of sharing with others?

Not large projects, but little code snippets that make my life easier. Like shuffling a list of bullet point items, bash one liners for working in a Linux environment. None of these are advanced enough to release publicly on GitHub, although I sometimes paste helpful snippets into a Gist incase someone finds it useful.

I'm always working on things. The problem is that my ambitions get bigger and bigger, so the metric of "how many projects have you created" is a low number, despite the fact that projects are the only thing that I do in my spare time (no wife/kids, live alone, few local friends).

I should be better about putting my stuff out there, but the problem is that once I've built it for myself, then I've already gotten out of it what I wanted to get out of it! And I don't want to go through the headache of making it palatable for everyone else, including writing documentation. But I need to be more disciplined about it and do it anyway. :)

> What kind of projects...?

Everything from home automation to C++ libraries to SAAS ideas that I only implement for myself.

I was on a 3 year long break from coding-for-fun due to really bad burnout, but managed to recover from it a couple of months ago, so I started building my own tools again.

Right now I’m working on a static site generator using mostly busybox utils, and an alternative web player for Bandcamp. Although I have all my projects publicly hosted, I’m pretty sure they are not used by anyone but me. But hey, they make my life easier, that’s the only thing that matters.

Probably 95% of my programming these days is for the fun of it. But I am retired so don't need to do any other programming very often. (Other = internal programming for family-company financial stuff)

I like playing with 8-bit stuff: Z80 assembly on CP/M, also Linux/C programming.