Interesting you say this, because I've seen many side projects on Github that have 'Made with love' in the footer. This typically means the project was crafted lovingly and with care (Something that can be absent when software is rushed out the door at break-neck speed)
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#32I've named projects after people I loved. Those named after unrequited crushes are still cherished... all else is regret. It's never the person's name. Sometimes a name will match their initials, maybe there's a subtle double-entendre that references something I admire about the person.
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#33My first ever coding experience was on a Casio fx-6800G, a low-res graphic calculator with a limited Basic and a whopping 400-character user-programmable memory.
Had a hopeless crush in middle school. Once spent hours painstakingly coding a slowly-rendered pixel-perfect heart to show her. I think she thought it was some built-in picture function, said “oh cute”, and lost interest the next moment :-)
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#34This is not mine, but you reminded me of the story of the author of Higher Order Perl, who made a program to generate quilt designs to impress his girlfriend.
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#35Back in 2004 I made a Pocket PC app for my girlfriend; it was an interactive map that showed how to get from the bus stop to my university. She was visiting from abroad and didn't know the area, but wanted to come visit me after my lectures. It had photos of the important junctions and landmarks that could be enlarged by tapping on the map.
She did not get lost.
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#36Long long ago in a galaxy far far away... Yes. She was practically obsessed with puzzles that transition into the real world. Correct me if I'm wrong but iirc, these days they are known as warp(or larp, can't remember) games. So I built one secretly, which picked up at the time. Something like 120 people registered(all those dozens of Stephen King novels came in handy when I had to make it a bit more sinister). There was just one problem - as someone who started writing programs when he was 10 and was magnitudes more obsessed with programming than she was with those games, I over-engineered the crap out of it and no one managed to solve the cryptographic/steganographic puzzles. Tl;dr epic fail at it's finest.
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#37Ok it's not coding but I modded a PC. That was in the early 2000, when the PC modding fashion started, there was no ready-made solution and components were not easy to find in my city, it was all DIY.
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#38When I was a cheezy cheese-filled chedderlord, I wrote a simple genetic algorithm that would evolve to spell a love message to my fiance. It was fun to watch as it got closer and closer to the goal.
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#39About decade ago a girl I knew moved off to Australia for a year, as her iPad was her main communication device, I made a just-for-her iPad app with Spotify playlists I could edit from my computer. https://orta.io/Mixtapes/
She's now my wife.
(and you don't have permission to put this on that site)
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#40I was working on a secure messenger app because I had an affair and she was afraid he'd find out if we messaged each other.
Idea was that every message was encrypted with a specific password before it was shared via a server infrastructure. The message once attempted to decrypt with with the password would destroy itself after a successful or unsuccessful decryption attempt.
I had a working web prototype using JSCrypt for the cryptography part when the affair ended. Didn't continue with the project.
Worth noting that this was years before E2E encrypted messengers became mainstream.