I'm just looking for any/every way to make the technical interviews I have to do as painless as possible. Putting a project on GitHub that I spend real time on

I'm just looking for any/every way to make the technical interviews I have to do as painless as possible. Putting a project on GitHub that I spend real time on and believe demonstrates my skills as an engineer feels intuitively like an activity that might do that. But you're right, it's not really about filling up time that's otherwise empty, it's really about making trades with the other time-filling things I'd like to do because the value of having a side project temporarily outweighs the value of spending time with my family.