Ask HN: What hobbies do you pursue in your free time

I’m planning onto learn more about golf and learn how to play

What hobbies do you guys pursue

Kettlebell. I don't have a lot of time, but 15 minutes first thing for me makes my whole day better. And I personally enjoy the whole effort.

Just discovered Pickleball and it’s a blast. Easy to learn, difficult to master. And I never liked other racquet sports. And in most areas there’s lots of open play so you don’t even need friends to play with.

3d printing is a really fun hobby. And pretty cheap to get started.

Wood working is a good one I’m trying to get into but I still get scared of the power tools.

Playing guitar, it's a great creative outlet when I'm tired of staring at screens. I've been playing for ~15 years but I don't really consider myself a musician - I mostly play for fun and don't bother trying to learn specific songs most of the time. My favorite thing to do is put on a playlist of good music and play along to it, trying to find the key and then playing around with different scales.

There's a great YT channel of rhythm backing tracks which is great for this: https://youtu.be/lCiMlxfLjcU

I have a variety of hobbies. Maybe to many. I like to rotate hobbies to keep things interesting. My hobbies usually interest and complement each other in various ways.

- Film photography. Photography is probably the first hobby I picked up. I have a variety of older film cameras in 35mm and medium format. Planning to convert an extra room in my basement into a darkroom in the near future.

- Blogging. I have been running my blog for a few years now. Most of my post are long form on technical subjects that interest me. I don't post often though. Maybe once a month or less.

- Game dev. I picked up Godot about two years ago. I've been working on and off on a simulated life game since October. I spent this week redoing the UI and adding more features to the game.

- Arduino. I tinker with Arduino dev boards. Lately I picked up Forth and have been teaching myself how to program the ATMega328 with FlashForth.

- Weightlifting. I suppose you could call this a hobby too. Working from home has allowed me to replace my commute time with lifting and I'm very thankful for it.

- Mushroom identification. For anyone interested I recommend the books "All that the Rain Brings and More" as well as "Mushrooms Demystified" by David Arora.

- Journaling. I like to organize my thoughts in a notebook on a regular basis. This hobby is probably the genesis of my other hobbies as I usually develop what I want to do with pen and paper first.