I had been wanting to learn how to play the guitar for years, but laziness, i guess, kept me from it. I picked it up with moderate seriousness and am very greatful i did. I wish i would’ve started sooner.
programming. now I’m getting a university education in the field.
I also started a university education around software development under covid. I had zero prior experience with programming before i started. I am writing my bachelor after christmas and i still can’t code for shit :) somehow i keep passing on the exams.
Congrats!
Chess yes very!
I started making scented candles. I mostly started because I was trying to recreate a particular scent that we don’t seem to be able to find anymore. I’ve gotten sort of close but not, like, super close. I liked experimenting with lots of different types of scents, though, and it’s nice to always have something around to help get rid of cooking odors in the kitchen, freshen up a bathroom, etc.
I haven’t made any in a while – not for any particular reason, though, although it is harder to want to do something that involves being over a stove a lot during the summer. I really should get back to it soon.
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Woodworking. Started during covid with building a workbench in my 2 bedroom condo. Moved into a house, and have a whole workshop with a growing number of more advanced tools to make life easier. Finally starting to cool down again to get back on it.
Woodworking is a fun one!
I’ve only taken a few shop classes in high school. But one time i got to refurbish a bunch of old lumber into a doghouse. It was pretty shitty, but it worked and the dog loved it.
Pretty shitty but works is a great starting point! Usually the most fun and rewarding projects! I still like throwing together functional hacks.
Pretty and polished with quality wood is fun too, but it’s high stakes and very very time consuming!
It is funny, every time some programmer or general IT guy wants to switch careers, they switch to things like woodworking because it is one of the jobs that uses the least amount of computers.
I happened to pick up an interest in DJ’ing right before Covid hit, and I’ve been doing it ever since. Now that things have opened back up, I’ve even had a couple of gigs and made a very modest profit on it. And I still enjoy adding tracks to the catalog, figuring out where I want my cue points and making notes for what works well with what.
I picked up baking soughdough loaves - like a lot of people…
I’ve managed to keep the habit! I’ve made a loaf once a week (pretty much) for almost 3.5 years. Which is a crazy number now that I’ve calculated it.
Feeding/kneading/shaping/baking just became part of my routine and it is now super easy to maintain, especially with the 1 a week low commitment. It makes the best sandwiches!
What is your process/recipe?
I’m no expert, please take the below with a pinch of salt (pun intended).
I keep my starter in the fridge and feed when I use it.
Make a levain: 60g starter (week old) 60g water 60g flour
Cover and leave that for 8 hours (remember to feed the starter and add back to the fridge).
Make the dough by mixing with the levain. Ratio is 1:2:3 (levain:water:flour): 10g salt 360g water (Lukewarm) 540g flour
I usually add the water, stir, add the salt, stir, add flour and mix by hand.
Cover and leave that 45min to an hour.
I then do a bit of a knead, then every 20mins do some coil folds. How many depends on how bothered I can be - between 1 and 5.
I give at least 2 hours from the last fold to proof, essentially at least 4 hours from making the dough. At this point dough should have doubled in size so you can also use that as a visual guide. How warm your kitchen is plays a bit part in how quick the proofing takes, hotter=quicker and colder=slower. So in winter I will wait a little longer.
Get the dough on your work surface and give it a quick shape. Let it bench rest for 5mins. During this time I get my proofing basket ready and make some space in the fridge.
Using flour, shape the dough and place in basket and then the basket in the fridge.
Leave this overnight.
Preheat oven to as high as it goes with Dutch oven inside.
Wait 30mins to heat up.
Get dough out the fridge and give it a brush to get some excess flour off.
Take the Dutch oven out and place the dough in the Dutch oven, score the dough, spray some water in the Dutch oven and place back in the actual oven.
Wait 30mins.
Turn oven down to 180 and take lid off the Dutch oven.
I then play it by eye on when to remove the loaf from the oven, usually 15-20mins. Depends how dark you like your crust.
Leave it to rest at least an hour before cutting into it. I’ve started leaving it another day and then cutting it all up and placing the slices in the freezer. Much easier cutting after a 1 day and this let’s me use the slices over the whole week.
It’s been a long time since I have looked at how to make soughdough loaves, so I probably have a few things wrong. However the above works for me. Let me know if you have any follow up questions and I’ll do my best to answer.
10g of salt? Jesus…
I got into doing yoga. I did it daily for about 9 months straight in 2020, and have never felt better. I go through phases now where I can keep it up, but I can also go a while without doing it. I wish I could get back into doing it daily because I feel so much better with the consistency.
I think we all go through those phases with our hobbies. What makes it great is that we found them in the first place. As long as we can pick them back up after some time away and still get the same enjoyment, then we’ve found something special.
Kind of like old friends you can hang out with like you never spent a day apart.
wargaming model painting (Warhammer 40k) and am still at it.
Being creative is an amazing hobby! I know some people that are into this and make some really cool stuff.
feels real good to finish a model and be like “yeah I did that”
3D printing, have been unable to continue but apparently it’s a known thing with 3D printing where people do it in waves
apparently it’s a known thing with
3D printingADHD where people do it in wavesThat too
3D printing only goes as far as you have projects.
If you run out of projects, you sort of run out of things to do.
But all that changes when you encounter something that is broken.
But all that changes when you encounter something that is broken.
Only if 3D printing could fix me 🫠
I played video games more often than usual. I still do when I have the time
Guitar and Ukulele, it’s been 4 months since I touched either one. But it’s because of a big RFP at work and not anything else.
Cool! I try to make sure i at least pick up my guitar and hammer out one some every day. Just a couple of minutes can make a shitty feel a little better.
I like that, what are you normally playing?
I mostly play a cheap acoustic Yamaha I bought about 20 years ago. But i also have a fender strat that is a lot of fun.
Musicwise, anything that i can sing along with and play. A lot of older rock n roll and country. But if i can get the chord progression down, then i want to learn it all.
That’s fantastic. Makes me want to pick my guitar up again. I won’t, not yet, but I want too!
I actually stopped my hobby of golfing because the courses were getting overcrowded as golf was one of the few sports you were still allowed to do at the height of covid. Haven’t picked it back up because it’s so time consuming.
I started reading regularly. Been doing it for a few years now. I think it was exactly what I needed in my life. I pretty much cut off playing video games and replaced it with books. 👍
Porque no los dos?
No reason in particular. I can’t get interested in video games anymore. So I have unintentionally replaced my free time playing video games with reading. If I could manage to get interested in a video game then I would still play it.
Nice!
My hobby of home automation, and running a home lab REALLY stopped up.
Pre-pandemic, I had a single server, pretty small, quiet, low energy usage. Post-pandemic, I have a full rack, redundant power, and tons of resources, and hundreds of containers and services.
Home automation: Pre-pandemic, I didn’t have too much. Few security cameras, and a small handful of devices, mostly controlled by alexa. Post-pandemic, I can tell you every time you forget to wash your hands after taking a shit. I know exactly how much energy and instantaneous power nearly every device in my house uses. I have automated just about anything you can imagine. Pools, opening windows, controlling a fireplace, scaring cats away from the kitchen table… you name it, and I have likely automated it and/or built hardware to automate it.
My other big hobby, was working on automotive projects: Pre-pandemic, I build a 1,000hp street-legal “race-car”. Would drive it to work occasionally. Spent a lot of time in my garage with tig welders, plasma cutters, metal lathes… etc. Post-pandemic, I honestly have not touched anything in my garage in years. I don’t really drive anywhere due to being full time WFH. So, I have not had much interest in messing with it. Also, its been really hot the last few years.
Wow, that’s really cool!
I really don’t feel comfortable asking, but I’m going to anyways. How much have you spent? A range would be acceptable if you don’t want to say the exact amount.
Hundreds of containers? Do you have a list handy? Been doing this for years and I may have 2 dozen
I used to have a list, somewhere. But. will, instead summarize it a bit.
External-facing websites (for both myself, and hosted for other clients).
A few discord bots I created, and host.
10-20 containers for home-automation.
10-15 containers for “Media” management.
A handful of containers for document/photo archival / storage / etc.
Containers for managing storage, backups. etc.
Containers for network management (unifi), SMTP, etc.
Containers for monitoring.
Keep in mind, most common “applications” will run at least two containers (one for the app, one for the database), and, occasionally a redis container.
I run services redundantly when possible. Ie- traefik runs as a daemonset, across all of my nodes. As does longhorn storage.
That being said, I’d guess I am only running around 40-60 total applications, but, those 40-60 turns into a couple hundred containers.
tried yoga, meditation, running to fix my suspected adhd, but couldn’t stick to it
i am still trying stuff like surya namaskar and make it a part of my daily routine, but still struggling
Maybe trying new hobbies is your hobby. That might be the best one so far. You’ll eventually find a great one if you keep it up.
