From: bowman@montana.com   
      
   On Tue, 14 Oct 2025 21:39:54 -0400, Radical wrote:   
      
   > I don't think I've ever built anything significant on my own. I enjoy   
   > solving problems and small coding exercises, but I've never built any   
   > software that someone could actually use (outside of my day job). Feels   
   > bad, but I've never had inspiration or ideas.   
      
   I know the feeling. I've made a living writing software for about 40 years   
   using everything from 8048 assembler to C# and Python for a wide range of   
   projects in different industries. Then when I go home and think about what   
   I could write, if only for my own use, I draw a blank. Or I should say I   
   think about how I would implement something and then say "Why bother"? I   
   could build a WiFi connected outdoor weather station and create a web page   
   to display the current data, store in in a Sqlite database, use the   
   historical data to create bar or pie charts, scrape the NOAA website for   
   forecasts and compare them to measured data and...  Or I could let the cat   
   out and see if she comes back cold and wet.   
      
   --- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05   
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