Ask HN: Comment here about whatever you're passionate about at the moment

Hello from Vancouver Canada, Thank you for your nice words, I had my first run after years of not being active that much tonight, it wasn't long but it was feeling amazing. Wish you best.

I am currently in this phase where tech stuff does not interest me very much. I still work a tech job and do a fair bit of coding, but mostly put a stop to obsessively reading every tech article on this website, code up something new in my free time, learn a new language etc.

Sometime during the pandemic, I stopped caring, perhaps fell into a bit of anhedonia. Thankfully, reading HN kept me informed about boreout (the relatively unknown cousin of burnout). Past few months, I made a big decision to move back to my home country and generally be more social, get more involved in the arts, watch movies, listen to music, read books, just take things easy. I think I am doing fine in my new job. The roaring interest in tech is still not back, but I'm confident it will be back eventually.

Until then, I'm happy reading about the good work done by other people. Perhaps one such idea might spark an insight in me and make me go to work. Cheers.

I didn't read the comments before posting but I will add. I am wanting to do a few "passion projects" I have wanted to do for awhile. One is make my own router like device. Not at a commercially made level just take a computer and add parts to do what I want. And I want to expand on it having it perform virtualization server functions (and a bit in depth like gpu pass through and maybe other device pass through) and NAS functions and further. Computers captivated me when I was young and hardware and software in general really is what I think got me here. I remember seeing a computer opened up for the first time and wanting to know what every little piece of it did especially the larger chips and expansion boards. Cost is my factor right now, but I am starting to look into it. THe other is that I have wanted to get into a more electronic engineering area but didn't really explore it. And I see a lot of expensive products and lately have been looking at them and thinking: I can make a comparable or better product for much cheaper! So I think looking into this area could give me a push to look more into electronic engineering.

Hello from Melbourne, Australia.

This weekend it finally started to feel warm, and I'm ready for summer.

I ran a software development agency for 8 years, sold it at the start of the pandemic, and been travelling with my wife in an RV around Australia thinking about what's next.

One of the issues we faced in our business was around centralising project requirements, and ensuring both our clients and our team could refer to a source of truth. I spent years thinking documentation was bad, but slowly started to realise in an agency setting, when you're working on possibly many a few long-term projects - it's impossible to keep it all in your head.

So my wife and I started building Userdoc (https://userdoc.fyi), and over the last few months have been doing a lot of customer interviews and and demos, along with finalising the product.

This weekend we've finished the last couple of items on our todo list, and rolling it out to our initial users very soon.