Nowadays, I'm working on improving areas that I have neglected, and following my instincts of trying to program with as little 'baggage' as possible.
My project of the last week or so has been a program to generate colorbars according to the cubehelix technique, and I'm using this as a UI testbed for doing all the latest hi-dpi hi-jinks to support nice screens in Windows 10.
I'm also programming in the Petzold-98 style, with nothing much more than the Windows headers, using VS Code with MSYS2, g++, gdb and the stl.
It is certainly refreshing, and relatively joyful to be free of the various layers of crap that are usually pasted into your programming life, obscuring the relatively simple Windows API.
The Advent of Code also has been a total high spot of the year. I completed it, and whilst not getting any actually leaderboard point, I did write code for all the challenges, and managed to develop as programmer whilst doing it.