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What is a hobby you enjoy, but seems too quirky or obscure to bring up in most conversations? (lemmy.sdf.org)

submitted 1 year ago by Rozz@lemmy.sdf.org to c/asklemmy@lemmy.ml

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Mine would be creating pen and paper ciphers for my made up secret communication needs.

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[–] Sibbo@sopuli.xyz 40 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Programming... Maybe not the most quirky, but just doesn't make for good conversation

[–] BeigeAgenda@lemmy.ca 35 points 1 year ago (1 children)

At the date...

... Funny thing this reminds me of the time I had to refactor my API to accommodate three whole new call types, you should have seen the json generator code before ...

[–] agent_flounder@lemmy.one 6 points 1 year ago

See I think this would be awesome. Finally an interesting conversation

[–] MashedTech@lemmy.world 4 points 1 year ago (1 children)

You know, sometimes I wish I had the time to do programming as a hobby. I have cool project ideas I want to make and then open source, but I just don't have the time.

[–] cyclohexane@lemmy.ml 2 points 1 year ago

Do 1 hour a week. Schedule it to make sure it happens.

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