It was a hobby project to have some tools of my own, but once I started... every day a new idea for a tool started popping up and I kept creating one after another
b) That page is condescending af; I am a hacker too, and even if I wasn’t, it would still be condescending af. Rather idiotic, too, as it assumes that asking about the motive for building something is a bad question, when in fact many hackers may have perfectly good reasons (learning, self-promotion, profit, etc) to build something other than just for the fun of it.
I really enjoyed creating those tools and for surely, I will create more.