> Building useful and viable software is a fun hobby It is! It's a lot like community theatre. A lot of people who maybe thought they'd be major movie star wh

> Building useful and viable software is a fun hobby It is! It's a lot like community theatre. A lot of people who maybe thought they'd be major movie star when they took drama in high school end up in reality working boring jobs but producing for the love the art and the dream stuff that is much better than it has any right to be. Will it ever be as good the professional stuff with large budgets? Rarely. But it is good and remarkable how far it's come.