Asklemmy

Photography. I got back into it last year and have really enjoyed the process. I’ve learned a lot in a really short time.

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Welding! Just personal projects

I fix my own cars and do my own house maintenance.

I write software for fun and give it away. I also write software for money and don't give it away.

I do almost the same thing as a(n unpaid) hobby that I do as my (paid) job. I'm a software developer who writes open-source software on the side.

I've also seen a few of my other hobbies grow into serious industries with real employees. The (hobby) drone industry and the 3D printing industry are quite large and growing (I assume).

Linux Sysadmin here.

I have a couple open source apps/scripts that have tens of stars and ones of forks. I'm also getting into micro soldering to fix electronics. Mostly for myself but I'll hardmod or fix friends equipment for cost of parts. I've been known to buy a broken console, fix it, mod it, then sell it for some extra cash to buy more soldering equipment.

Apparently I study timekeeping so much that I can program a clock on a graphing calculator without using any timer function.

It takes a fixed amount of time to alter a pixel on the screen, and when carefully crafted, the pixel clock itself serves as a timer.

I'm actually currently testing such a clock demo on my Casio right now.

Gaming.

According to my ex, I'm pretty good at defending the horrible actions of others in a conversation

I have a machine shop that I use for making things out of metal that are normally not made of metal (like a yarn winder).

Apparently there are people who receive monetary compensation for drawing comics. Some apparently can even do that as their main job. That's what I heard at least, they seem to be rare.

I got really into cocktails a few years ago (or "mixed drinks", if you want to be more technically correct). No way I'd be able to keep up at a real bar, even if I probably know more cocktails than many of the bartenders I've personally interacted with (TBF I haven't been to a bar since I really got into cocktails, and before I got into it I just went wherever it was cheap). Fixing drinks is at best half of the job anyway, and I'm rubbish at the people stuff.

I try playing the guitar and taking photos.

My current favorite outside of gaming is selfhosting or homelabbing. Maybe not to a high degree but I manage four local servers and one offsite, with four websites. It’s pretty fun but makes me super stress when it fails. One of those websites is a work related database but it’s also very fun to manage.

Another small hobby I have is managing my own small library. Using LOC codes I learned from the library. I inherited a massive collection from retiring profs.

I'm trying to get into creating electronic circuits. I'm terrible at it, though.

Kind of the opposite, but I void warranties for a living. Pays pretty well too.

cycling and drumming (in a band), not easy to find the time with all the other stuff (chores etc.) that has to be done

I make and publish music but not popular enough to live off of it.