A bit of a tangent on the importance (in my opinion) or toy projects, pointers to past posts on C++, CMake, C++ modules, packaging, C++ with a columnar database and some hints at areas I hope to find time to dig into more in the future plus Lego! https://cryos.net/2024/02/toy-projects-and-lego/
Toy Projects and Lego

A tangent on the importance of toy projects and Lego

Unnecessary, but required

In the past year, I've hard to learn quite a few different lessons, some harder than others, some…

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@flameeyes I had not seen this post before, read many others. Indeed a number of similarities, your post about open source and careers inspired me to be a little more selfish and feel ok about it. This recent set of posts is about the most I have indulged my curiosity in years. Clearly I stayed in academia a little longer, but the life long learning is core I think