However, I've noticed that building such "just-for-me" projects has become less frequent over the years.
Can anyone relate to this experience? What kinds of projects are you working on that you have no intention of sharing with others?
I should be better about putting my stuff out there, but the problem is that once I've built it for myself, then I've already gotten out of it what I wanted to get out of it! And I don't want to go through the headache of making it palatable for everyone else, including writing documentation. But I need to be more disciplined about it and do it anyway. :)
> What kind of projects...?
Everything from home automation to C++ libraries to SAAS ideas that I only implement for myself.
Right now I’m working on a static site generator using mostly busybox utils, and an alternative web player for Bandcamp. Although I have all my projects publicly hosted, I’m pretty sure they are not used by anyone but me. But hey, they make my life easier, that’s the only thing that matters.
Not large projects, but little code snippets that make my life easier. Like shuffling a list of bullet point items, bash one liners for working in a Linux environment. None of these are advanced enough to release publicly on GitHub, although I sometimes paste helpful snippets into a Gist incase someone finds it useful.
I like playing with 8-bit stuff: Z80 assembly on CP/M, also Linux/C programming.