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What is a hobby you enjoy, but seems too quirky or obscure to bring up in most conversations? (lemmy.sdf.org)

submitted 1 year ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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Mine would be creating pen and paper ciphers for my made up secret communication needs.

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[–] [email protected] 45 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Programming... Maybe not the most quirky, but just doesn't make for good conversation

[–] [email protected] 38 points 1 year ago (1 children)

At the date...

... Funny thing this reminds me of the time I had to refactor my API to accommodate three whole new call types, you should have seen the json generator code before ...

[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 year ago

See I think this would be awesome. Finally an interesting conversation

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago (1 children)

You know, sometimes I wish I had the time to do programming as a hobby. I have cool project ideas I want to make and then open source, but I just don't have the time.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Do 1 hour a week. Schedule it to make sure it happens.

Consistency is more important than volume.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Thanks. I'll keep that in mind. What I usually liked to do is stream my working process on YouTube or Twitch even though nobody watched, for some reason the act of streaming while I was working made it for me more important to be more focused and I felt I had greater clarity because I felt I had to explain my ideas out loud.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I like the idea. The only thing is I would worry it would add extra effort to the whole process, making you think "oh now I have to setup the stream and everything... Nah". And just programming might seem much easier to "just start it".

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

Yeah, that kind of thing usually is. But for some reason for streaming it isn't. Discovered some weird brain hack of mine.