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I guess I have coder's block... the thought of a big project makes me more reluctant to start.

I was in one of these for a few months. Strangely enough, changing all my editors color schemes from darkmode to whitemode helped me to overcome it. Over time I went back to darkmode for the most part.

Maybe it is similar to working from a different place? (e.g. coding sitting in park instead of the same old office day-in day-out)

I definitely can second this, changing something about my tools can jump-start stuff.

Another example is "productivity apps". I was using one for ~1 year and it was going great until the last few months. I simply changed to a different one and now I'm using it much more than I was. I think just changing the stuff you use all the time is something that is under-appreciated

The trick here is to break it into the smallest possible pieces and just start doing the first piece as your only task for today.

Most likely that will build momentum.

Can also try accomplishing a small not-work task like laundry or something to solve it from the other end. (You’ll feel like you can take on bigger pieces because you just accomplished something)

Lastly reading the specs or playing with the app with no other windows open and eventually boredom will take over and you’ll start making bits of progress.

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