Those of you who do programming as a hobby, what the fuck do you actually program?

Those of you who do programming as a hobby, what the fuck do you actually program?

The only thing I can think of that I want to program for myself is trading software.

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>trading software
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Mostly I script repetitive tasks.

Last thing I wrote was a program to tell me what bus was due at any stop near to me. I have saved much energy dashing when I needed not to

I've written a few messaging applications. Currently writing a PWA that incorporates geolocation. Going to actually host this one and shill it on HN and such. It's going to get me a shiny new job at a better company.

vidyagaems.

keep the baby away from electronics they emit harmful radiation.

this

Used to love writing scripts at my old data entry job. I automated my entire day and used the free time to watch anime and learn web development. Felt good man.

stuff I'd actually use.

I'm a sysadmin by day and I work with some super fucking old servers running Red Hat 4, so I have to build things from source a lot. I have a project on my to-do list to make an ad-hoc package manager that keeps track of installed software from source.

that sort of thing.

When I did it as a hobby I'd try to program video or explore some concept related to games as an escape from my horrible life. But then I made my life better and so I got a job doing webdev and now I have social hobbies instead.

You can definitely do dev work for a trading firm but getting to touch the software that actually does does the trade might be difficult. You'll probably be working on tools to make traders life easier. Also you better be in the USA/Canada or the UK

>or the UK
Or Frankfurt after Brexit.

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step 1. use a shitty piece of software, and oversimplify its design in your head.

step 2. think "I could do this" and then start a project and quit halfway through when you realize it's more nuanced and difficult than you thought.

99% of the time, it works every time.

most commercial trading platforms have direct access brokers. eg thinkorswim

I'm not familiar with it. Do you mean that trading firms use commercial software instead of writing their own?

Trade-station, interactive brokers, and wealth lab all are platforms that can be fully automated

i personally use interactive brokers, they have /comfy/ API interactivebrokers.com/en/index.php?f=5041

Working fully and over time with electric gis software I only want to stay off programming when not working but I particularly enjoy programming assembly.

Interesting. I'm going to look into the careers page for all of these.

Its funny that they repeat "proprietary" multiple times

Scripts and programs for things I need to do.
I made a Qt application for sorting and tagging my giant images folder for example.
Currently working on a music player similar to MPD but with (hopefully) a better API for clients.
Also just educational exercises, I made a toy scripting language that runs in my own JIT'd VM. I'd never use it for anything productive but it was fun to make and I learned a lot about language design and parsing.

they program millon dolla apps

"hobby" or circlejerk programming is going to be hello worlds but pseudo-challenging themselves by not using an IDE, or using a hard-on-purpose text editor. Exactly why we have interviews to weed out the loser shits

lmao that's amazing. are you actually doing this? post github

I dick around with home automation more than anything. Python makes it easy as fuck.

Use it to automate shit I don't want to do over and over again. As well as tinkering with making vidya. In a shit programmer so none of it works but it's fun to try.

>muh Sup Forums

>nazi frog
>post github

YES

>I tell jokes! (smug face)
>I drop redpills!

>trading software
You nailed it. Muh crypto. Also affiliate marketing software. Basically whatever makes money.

programs

I automate random-generation tables in various GURPS (the Generic Universal RolePlaying System) books.

Nice W520

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you take a problem you need or want to solve and start.


if you need to ask what to program as a hobby, you're in the wrong industry.

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what kind of pedo shit is that?

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sauce OP?

someone make a picture sorter for Sup Forums folders.

It's fun

I wrote an autistic os called temple os and a compiler and some other dumb shit no one uses. When im not doing that im jacking off to a trap named diana and play drums without any drums.

You programmed that? How are you not a millionaire by now.

I just work the problems in textbooks mostly

ooooh so that's why I'm retarded

Hi Terry

Fuck around with numerical approximations when I'm bored at work. I bought a numerical analysis and algorithms book and I'm having fun with the exercises in the back. Examples are in Matlab unfortunately and the publisher didn't think to give you a free copy of it so I'm using octave, which is sort of a pain to load function scripts on. Probably should take the time to translate them to python or common lisp or something but whatever.

colony management simulator a la Sierra's Outpost but without the tedium of subterranean building

Decent thread

I've wrote script that calculates working hours for my shift and makes pop-up for reminder. Because all calendars can't into 8-day cycle.

Way back in college I crafted some data mining tools for a project and I'm still hacking on those, using them daily for my tech-unrelated business.

I use a lot of command line software so I wrote lots of scripts as wrappers. I have a python script for mpv that allows me to play playlists, download as mp3, replay the previous url, etc.

Impossible that political events could affect employment?
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user, there's this thing called 'piracy'. You should try it.

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HOW? i want to do this

Shit for microcontrollers. I have an obsession with rf, so I fuck around with rfics and pics.

I write modding tools in C/C++.

I used to develop shit for Sup Forums

>none of Sup Forums's projects have ever gone anywhere
What an impressive resume user.

People used the shit I developed for years until I just got lazy and stopped caring about it

10/10

I'm not an experienced programmer, I wouldn't even call myself a programmer, I just make small things I occasionally might need like a text to ASCII code converter.

most people use bash.

also I've been working out an idea in my head for a GUI file manager specifically made for sorting image/video files by putting tags in the file name separated by underscores. I collect porn because it's free or at least easy to obtain, but much of it is either unsorted or poorly sorted, so I was gonna use the program to keep it sorted but in a normal file manager it would all just be thrown into a single folder.

sage for double post.