Mine would be creating pen and paper ciphers for my made up secret communication needs.

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    Programming… Maybe not the most quirky, but just doesn’t make for good conversation

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      At the date…

      … Funny thing this reminds me of the time I had to refactor my API to accommodate three whole new call types, you should have seen the json generator code before …

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      You know, sometimes I wish I had the time to do programming as a hobby. I have cool project ideas I want to make and then open source, but I just don’t have the time.

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        Do 1 hour a week. Schedule it to make sure it happens.

        Consistency is more important than volume.

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          Thanks. I’ll keep that in mind. What I usually liked to do is stream my working process on YouTube or Twitch even though nobody watched, for some reason the act of streaming while I was working made it for me more important to be more focused and I felt I had greater clarity because I felt I had to explain my ideas out loud.

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            I like the idea. The only thing is I would worry it would add extra effort to the whole process, making you think “oh now I have to setup the stream and everything… Nah”. And just programming might seem much easier to “just start it”.

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              Yeah, that kind of thing usually is. But for some reason for streaming it isn’t. Discovered some weird brain hack of mine.