Love this stuff. I use regular mini side programs/projects as motivation-boosting procrastination tools. Oxygen to a tired mind. Just yesterday I saw a front pa

Love this stuff. I use regular mini side programs/projects as motivation-boosting procrastination tools. Oxygen to a tired mind. Just yesterday I saw a front page post on hn that I didn't love the solution for and so took 3hrs to byo (3hrs from another, only slightly less-tiny, project). Often tiny programs form the seed of much bigger efforts. My last two major projects, both now well-funded scientific programs, can be found buried in tiny-program / MIT form on my codepen. In fact looking at it again now I have a codepen littered with tiny personal programs, most of which are utility-driven, I'd completely forgotten about, and would make no sense to anyone else.