Ask HN: Anyone coding on the side only?

I work in tech leadership in a role that only rarely involves actually looking at or writing code for work. I code on the side because dopamine.

Mostly motivated by curiosity about how brains work and what can be done with code over the wire to spy on people or manipulate their traffic.

I am now doing research. I am supporting that with model coding, and still hacking my home control systems and servers because it's fun and informative and gives me fine control where I want it.