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What I've been trying lately is hacking. I'm on www.hackthebox.com, they offer over 200 machines for you to hack. Each machine offers a service, usually a website, but last week I had a grpc machine, which has some kind of vulnerability you need to find and exploit.
A free account doesn't give acces to all machines, only +- 20 active machines. A payed account also gives you acces to all retired machines.
You do need a "starterpack" to begin with this hobby, a vm with Kali Linux is the main component, the ability to connect to a vpn is another, because the htb machines all run on vpn's.
As a programmer, you have the basic knowledge about enumeration and webservices and such, to solve easy boxes (which can still take days to hack). You'll only need to learn about tools like nmap and burpsuite, but you'll surely find some tutorials online.
The goal is to get user acces and eventually root acces (they've placed a user flag in the user home directory and a root flag in the root directory which you can submit on the htb website and gain points)
It's really fun and challenging and even educational to search for weakness on various webservices, like apache or wordpress. It can be frustrating at times, but as a programmer you know that those challenges can be the most rewarding.