For a developer it’s really valuable to keep exploring new ideas and technology outside your day-to-day job. To achieve this, it’s very common to have a project on the side. Having a project on the side comes with various benefits:
- Creating something tangeable and useful is what every programmer drives
- Learning new tech greatly improve when you actually build something with it, instead of just following tutorials.
- New ideas keep on flowing
- You have something to iterate on. Want to try some new programming language? Try to build the same thing in the other language.
My Side project
In my spare time I like to read about finances. The “Financially Independent” community really intrigues me. Having good insight in where our money is spent is important to me. That’s why I’m building some tooling to provide me that insight. Ofcourse there are different tools out there that could help me with that, but they always lack some feature. Besides: building the thing yourself is waaay more fun.
In a later post, I’ll describe my techstack choices so far. Stay tuned.