What will you be building this weekend?
I read this question today, which triggered me a little. In the context of software engineering, many of us have always had pet projects, side projects, or just whacky things we’d like to spend some time coding. Because mostly it’s kinda fun to learn new things, to play, or just practice our love of coding, trying, failing, trying again, failing in different ways. This was something that was typically invisible to the wider world. I was ok being labelled a nerd working on some project that probably had no real world application, but let me play with a new API or tech that became available. If anything this felt somehow exclusive. ...