Random_Person

The only TRUELY passive income I have is a YouTube video, unedited, published in 2012 that generates me $500-$1,500 a year. I do absolutely nothing to the video to promote it. YouTube seems to recommend it every fall and it has been a nice little Christmas bonus each year.

Other than that, a few games I've published generate ~$100 a year without input from me. Everything else requires at least a little bit of my time on a regular basis and I wouldn't count it as passive.

Time off. I worked for over a decade in the automotive industry (sales, service, mechanic, etc) and most of those jobs offered 2 holidays and 1 week of vacation.

My current employer gives me 17 hoildays and 25 paid vacation days. Pretty much the best perk ever.

Whatever the default font is for my editor. I've never found font to be a barrier for me. I'm currently using Atom, so I guess Menlo or Consolas.

A simple reporting tool for tracking and reporting project/task activity.

It's cool because work requires me to submit an activity report each week and I wasn't about their terribly inefficient form, so I built a web-service to track my activities.

It's nothing special per-se, but it's significantly less complicated than other free options I've found for this sort of reporting and I like things that don't require me to learn how to use them.

MacBook Pro 2015. Because work gave it to me.

All my desktops are Win10.

I've been tapering off of my antidepressant for 3 weeks now after 4 years.

The sudden flood of emotions has been weird, but familiar. I can't imagine going decades without.

Many cars on the road today have no mechanical linkage between the steering wheel and the tires. This is nothing new.

Damn, I spent all night last night trying to get jspdf to work for me and gave up. Breezy looks like exactly what I needed! Serendipity.

Mancala

I joined the Marine Corps. That was ~20 years ago now and it helped me in immeasurable ways. I was a pretty crappy teen - suicidal, drugs, problems with authority - and decided I wanted to fix that.

The Corps taught me to be confident and that helped me leaps and bounds... until my wife became unfaithful and financial stress started to pile up.

For the past 4 years I leaned on medication to help me with the anxiety and depression and only this week I have begun working with my doctor to taper off of the medication. I'm at a place in life now where I don't need the crutch anymore and the medication severely impacts my creativity. It was the right choice at the time, but I'm ready to take on the world again.

The content - right now - is structured and evergreen. If you suddenly attract a few thousand users, do you think you can maintain that? Do you expect to be able to curate all the posts? There doesn't seem to be any requirement for me to make a list be an actual list. I can make a single-bullet list and move on, so what prevents this from being just another link-sharing service like Tumblr?

These are all questions I'd be asking myself if this was my project. I like the concept and the layout is strong.

Yes? Very few posts actually contain more information than the little blurb... which makes it feel more like a curated Twitter hashtag than an actual blog, but that's not on you. That will come from people using it.

The similarity between the layout and twitter made a few things confusing: I tried clicking on a username to go to that user's profile and was instead directed to the list. This behavior is fine, but I think because the UI is so familiar, I wanted it to behave in a familiar way.

I can click on other people's bios to open the edit dialog. I shouldn't be able to do that, even if my edit does nothing. :-)

Also, the back button (top left) has some weird behavior. After adding a list and adding some things to the list, I tried to use the back arrow to go to the huggylist home and it instead took me back to the new list form.

This is pretty neat. Thanks for sharing. There's a few inconsistencies with your layout. On desktop, it (mostly) forces phone view, but when I went to add my list, for instance, the submit button stretched my entire window.

I've been working on a simple Activity Reporting tool for a few months now and I could use... all sorts of help.

Firstly, I've only been a "professional" developer for a few years. I've been a hacker most of my life, but bad habits of being self taught and never having my code reviewed means that I'm not confident enough to open source. Just having someone look at what I'm doing and give pointers would be HUGE. Finding someone who is willing to help write the code would be amazing... but this is a free service which means there's no money. It's purely a passion project.

I'm not a marketing guy, so writing good copy for the site has been a struggle... which makes finding early adopters difficult. I have a hard time staying motivated without immediate need... so having users is vital to the success of the project.

Honestly, there is just so much I need, having someone to chat with regularly about the project would be super appreciated.

https://pepahana.com

My bed. I'm mostly a hermit when left to my own devices and I have absolutely no problem being productive at home... so, in my bed with my laptop and some background noise and I'm all set.

Interesting. Thanks!

Just curious why you would choose to write your own route handler.

I use them (via Laravel) on work projects and I hate them. I hate that I have to look at a routes file or controller to find out what is pointed where in my file. I have all my route-handling stuff for each page, at the top of each page so I don't have to go look elsewhere for that info. Is this wrong?

I work for my state. Sure, I don't get to go on "recharge" breaks, but I do get a month of vacation each year (plus a bunch of sick days) and I'm never required to put in more than 40hrs.

The downside is I'm paid about half of what I should be making.

Still the same stack I'm using today:

Linux/Apache/PHP/HTML/CSS - why complicate what works. :-D

Usually self-preservation. Often, the software projects I work on are things that simplify my life and it just so happens that other people want to use them too.

I enjoy eating, having a home, feeding my children, and playing games. So, I do what I have to do to keep that going. Everything else requires effort for me to even start and once I'm going, even more effort to maintain.

I recently adopted a codebase that (of course) was a mess... I can confidently make that statement as the end users were extremely frustrated with the lack of usability. The front end was just as bad as the back end.

So, I spent 2 months repairing features, rebuilding a few, refactoring quite a bit and on launch day of my updates I received an email from an end user that said:

"You are the best and this is the smoothest it's ever been"

I printed that email and hung it above my whiteboard. Felt AWESOME.

I have old yahoo addresses that refuse to die. My "main" email is Gmail, but all of my domains are hosted on Dreamhost and have email, so I have addresses on all of them also, but forward to my Gmail for reading/cataloging. Work uses a Microsoft account.

I fear for the future of post-Linus linux.

Drone: Get a DJI Mavic. Amazing pro-sumer drone that packs easily.

I don't know yet. For me "side project" means significantly less planning. My method is to listen to people around me, "I wish I had a tool that could do x."

If it's simple enough, I don't bother Googling for a solution, I build it for them. Exactly as they request. Nothing more, nothing less.

I do work for Portal Games. We publish all sorts of awesome stuff, mostly from our CEO, Ignacy Trzewiczek. The rest of the team is in Poland, so I am the de-facto English authority. I write rules and such. Also, I manage all our US convention appearances.

I work in Education. There are a surprisingly small number of vendors that are willing to do little projects in the space. When I hear "I wish we had something to do X", I take notes and come back with offers to build X. Recently, I've decided to make this my own Project as my employer is shuttering it's doors in 6 months.

1) YouTube Channel

2) Board Game design/publication/editing

3) B2B SaaS solutions for Education

4) Woodworking

#3 is the most profitable, but I'm less passionate about it compared to 1 and 2.