#passion-projects — Public Fediverse posts

⚡ Have a lightning in a bottle idea?
Come see what our community's been dreaming up in this collaborative event.
Each talk giver will have 5 minutes to talk all about their passion project.

Email [email protected] before Feb. 19th at 1PM EST to sign up to give a talk!

📆 March 12, 2026
🕦 6-8 PM
📍Hackforge HQ (300 Ouellette Ave., Unit 210) & Online via Zoom
🎟️ RSVP and More Info at www.hackf.org/events

#PassionProjects #WindsorTech #HybridEvents

BASIC ideas:

- BASIC written in Arduino assembly again
- BASIC written in Common Lisp
- yet another 6502 BASIC

Common Lisp (SBCL) ideas:

- a line editor in Common Lisp
- a static site generator the way i actually like to do it... in Common Lisp

special mention:

- try and remove the C primitives from emacs again
- look into guilemacs again

#ideas #showerthoughts #daydreaming #commonlisp #basic #6502 #arduino #emacs #lisp #elisp #commonlisp #projects #passionprojects #hobbies #guile

Poetry, Passion, and Physics

Scientist and poet Edward Nudelman dives into the relationship of poetry, passion, and physics (and the sciences) with poetic examples.
The post Poetry, Passion, and Physics appeared first on Writer's Digest.
https://www.writersdigest.com/poetry-passion-and-physics

#WriteBetterPoetry #PassionProjects #poetry #PoetryWriting #science

"So as I continue to book more shows, I better be seeing all of you in the crowd. (Joking, maybe...)"

https://jgmonger.blogspot.com/2025/06/balancing-my-dual-life-musician-academic.html

#MusicianAcademic #WorkLifeBalance #CreativeOutlet #MusicAndMind #PassionProjects #AcademicLife

No more later

But, when you work in six week cycles, or relatively short time frames, later means something else entirely. There’s no time for later. It’s now or not. Later doesn’t mean we’ll get to it at the end of this cycle. It means we’ll drop it. Later means another time, not this time. Later isn’t an obligation, it’s a maybe. Later isn’t a cage, it’s freedom. It’s not a debt to pay off, it’s an asset. There’s no pile of pile ups, there’s no guilt, there’s no feeling of late nights and crunch time ahead. Later simply means not now, not soon, and not for sure.

~ Jason Fried, from Avoiding pile-ups

slip:4uheja1.

I read this and it really landed. Six weeks. Six weeks is an amount of time I can truly apprehend and plan for. Six weeks has become my new project size. If it cannot be done in six weeks, it needs to be broken down into multiple projects.

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#JasonFried #PassionProjects #Planning

#webIndustry & #AI by @baldur

"Even the #paidjobs when they happen have much lower budgets and are employing fewer people.
This #dysfunction means that the “adjacent but still in the industry” jobs that used to pay for the #passionprojects are fewer and farther between. More and more people have to rely on unrelated day jobs (or spouses) to stay in the industry and the cold hard truth is that most of them will burn out and leave eventually."

https://www.baldurbjarnason.com/notes/2025/the-web-is-a-creative-industry/

Managed to get an article done already for this week. Got 1 more to write and then record. Busy start!

#contentcreation #gameguides #passionprojects

Somewhat wacky

At this point I’m resigned to my nature being unchangeable. I need structure to work within, and I cannot suffer long stretches of boredom. I’m comfortable knowing that at least some of what I do makes the world a better place; I’m comfy with my internal validation. I also know that if I start to focus too much on making money I lose my spark. What I’m left wondering is wether there is some thing focused enough that people could dig in and follow (in the sense of deeply understanding the thing, my motivations, and my goal.) I’m certain however, that without that clear thing I must continue to explore and satisfy my curiosity, and not focus overly on monetization.

If you’re thinking about running a membership program, you’re probably a bit wacky. Everything I write about membership programs should be filtered through the lens that: I live a somewhat uncommon, sometimes extremely wacky life. It’s good to keep that in mind. My work is mostly, inherently, non-commercial. Or less commercial than it might be “optimized” for. When people ask me: Who are you? What do you do? And I tell them — I walk, I write, I photograph, I make books, I run a membership program. Their suspicion is plainly visible: No, but what do you do to survive? As if the soul itself wasn’t a thing to be nourished. This is survival, I want to say.

~ Craig Mod from, Running a Membership Program: Four Years In — by Craig Mod

slip:4ucaea2.

I’ve tried several times to create membership systems around passion projects. The core problem I encounter is that bolting on a membership system creates in- and out-groups. Any passion project I’ve had feeds that passion through my connections to the other people who engage. The in-group has always been too small to sustain my passion. If you wish you can support my work. But for the foreseeable future, I’m focusing on the passion and not the monetization.

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#7ForSunday #CraigMod #Creativity #Monetization #PassionProjects

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#BraveWords
Passion Projects And Hobbies Of Metal’s Greatest Frontmen
Metal can often feel like an all-consuming pastime. From playing it, to listening, to spending time with like-minded fans. But, broad a church as the altar to the metal gods is, it is not all capable of meeting all needs or wants. As such, it’s not uncommon for...

https://bravewords.com/news/passion-projects-and-hobbies-of-metals-greatest-frontmen

#RocknRollLifestyle #MusicLegends #Frontmen #PassionProjects #Creativity #GenreRenaissance #MetalCommunity

(and if that isn't enough, or I get tired of each of them, there's plenty more to work on: https://fixato.org/now.html)

#projects #petProjects #PassionProjects #ScratchYourOwnItches