I like making things. I want to have an impact. I want to do something new. I want people to try and use my stuff and tell me about it. So I'm achieving that to

I like making things. I want to have an impact. I want to do something new. I want people to try and use my stuff and tell me about it. So I'm achieving that today. Make your own hash function. It's not that hard. Most non crypto hash functions are just something similar to ax + b mod p. And then there's plenty of room left for exotic ones. There's room for yours, too. Personally I've for a long time really liked making RNGs. Many people like making them actually. For me, I always liked the feeling of getting something simple that i made create so much uncompressible apparent entropy out of so little. And i enjoy the challenge of passing the test suites for randomness. And i enjoy the feeling of making tiny mixing functions. I like the diagrams of mixing functions and ciphers. I like the aesthetics of writing that code, both that which is similar to the main habits of many ciphers, the xors, the shifts, as well as coming up with something new. A lot of people like making hashes, and RNGs, and there are a lot of them, and a lot of good, useful and interesting ones. All made by people no smarter than me. I'm fine to get up in front of you all here and try and do something i like, and fall and succeed, and learn. I just enjoy what I'm doing. I'm creative and can come up with new things. I like doing it. Coding is one way i can express that creativity in a way that satisfies me. And i feel more satisfied when i share what i make it with others, and i have more fun when i take it more seriously. I like a challenge. And i think i can do something good with this space. And i want to. And I'm fine to fail too. I like to succeed. And I'm fine to fail. I just like doing it. I like doing more than i like sitting on the sidelines and commenting on other people doing, and secretly wishing i was on the field doing something too, instead of in the stands just having opinions. That always felt fake to me... Because if i secretly wanted to do what someone else was doing, I wouldn't get jealous, I'd just say to myself, how do I get that, too? Because, why not? So other peoples achievements inspired me to do, too, if i liked the same thing. If didn't like it, I wouldn't do it, but i could still enjoy it vicariously. So that's why I do stuff and share it with others and take it seriously. Hope that answers your question.