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Stop looking for grand plans and do something simple and fun. Yes, there are dozens of complex ideas I would love to work on, but they involve infrastructure an

Stop looking for grand plans and do something simple and fun. Yes, there are dozens of complex ideas I would love to work on, but they involve infrastructure and bootstrapping and a dozen other things that are useful, but not fun. AdventOfCode, on the other hand, is completely worthless in the grand scheme of things, but has been fun as hell and provides me with a sense of accomplishment every day. I’ve also got a Pimoroni environment sensor that was a lot of fun to set up and gives me fun graphs every day. Sure it provides (as far as I’m concerned) the same temperature and humidity reading as the $5 device I got at a random store, but it provided something for me to do that was relatively easy, involved an emerging interest for me (hardware), and in the end who doesn’t love graphs?

reddit_clone 6y ago
On the topic of AdventOfCode, I also find it fun (I am using Raku/Perl6). Unfortunately I have fallen behind a few days. I checked the LeaderBoard out of curiosity. These guys are submitting answers <5 minutes! It takes me that long just to read the problem and come to some sort of understanding. Amazing! I wonder if any of them streaming this stuff?
- jodrellblank 6y ago
  Yes, plenty stream. https://www.reddit.com/r/adventofcode/wiki/streamers https://www.reddit.com/r/adventofcode/wiki/streamers - Jonathan Paulson is one who makes the leaderboard. and look in the big daily answers threads like https://old.reddit.com/r/adventofcode/comments/k9lfwj/2020_day_09_solutions/?limit=500 https://old.reddit.com/r/adventofcode/comments/k9lfwj/2020_d... (make sure to load lots of comments, Reddit doesn't show all of them), and search for video/stream/twitch/youtube.