I looked a the page. I read through the statement. I looked for a link. I found only a superficial tiny one to his personal page that frankly looks amazingly ba

I looked a the page. I read through the statement. I looked for a link. I found only a superficial tiny one to his personal page that frankly looks amazingly bad in a good way. The first thought that went through my brain was "what are you trying to sell me?" I may have put an expletive or two in there. I have become jaded and cynical because there are so few genuine people who are building stuff for fun. Or so it seems. Perhaps the echo chamber is skewing my perception. I love building stuff just for fun. I built a stop watch desktop application the other week. Because I could. It doesn't do much, but it is my stop watch application that works precisely how I want my stop watch application to work. It starts, it stops, it counts laps, it has big buttons that work on a touch screen, it fills the entire screen when launched, it records daily logs in a JSON file and reloads the logs when the application starts up, it uses computer vision from the door camera to detect when I leave the house, alone, with the wife, with the dog, with the wife and the dog, it looks at my shoes, it figures out if I am "walking laps" based on whether I walked past the front door camera several times and a heuristic that figures out "that's about the right number of seconds of what a lap takes to do" and it counts those laps up automatically, it doesn't require a server, it isn't in the cloud, it doesn't collect analytics, and it doesn't need lots of permissions. I built it "just for fun." I am currently building a task list device & application. It's got buttons, and digital displays, and a retro-cool look. And it is "just for fun." When people ask me "why are you building this?" really they're saying "why are you showing me? why should I care? I don't like it. this doesn't seem like a productive pursuit." To put this in the words of Dr Frankenfurter, "I didn't make him, for you."