Interesting definition of "interesting" you're using there. I don't think he was necessarily saying that you should sacrifice yourself to your own idea of the

Interesting definition of "interesting" you're using there. I don't think he was necessarily saying that you should sacrifice yourself to your own idea of the pointless "greater noble good". Build a stamp database, an app to record baseball cards, automatically conjugate latin verbs, make a recipe database that can give you a list of what can be made with a given set of ingredients, make a 3d anatomical viewer based on the BodyPart3D database, make a catalog of open source projects for a given combination of JavaScript technologies, make a periodic table that shows the 3D orbital structure of the atom involved, calculate and visualise knitting patterns, simulate an H-Bomb or global thermonuclear war... Do it in Golang, write it in Rust or Haskell or PHP, or with a shell script if you have to... Run it on baremetal, on a VM, in a unikernel, deploy it in a k8s cluster, or nomad, or docker-compose or host it on a microcontroller if that fits... But for a change focus on the problem and not the tools.