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What are your non-tech interests/hobbies? 🏝

I've found that as developers/engineers we mostly spend our time working within tech be it a full-time job or side projects. But for optimal work-life balance, it is great to have hobbies and interest outside of your work.

My hobby outside tech is Photography. 📾

I love taking pictures and I sometimes use this as my escape from the tech world. I'll like to know what your hobbies/interests are too.

Feel free to share yours and I'm hoping to see diverse interests from everyone in this community. ❀

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Amara Graham

I really like cooking and baking, but the more I think about it the more parallels I see to some of the tech things I do. Just like recipes can be hard to follow or understand, docs can too. If anything I think reading more recipes has improved my communication skills, particularly when my husband is like "wait... what's 'hand mix' or 'fold in'??"

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Gift Egwuenu

I never would have thought of it this way. I also enjoy cooking 😊

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Sarah Dye

I do lots of crafting. I make felt applique kits and cross stitch. I'm trying to learn crochet right now. I'm planning on trying to learn how to knit sometime in the future.

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Angela Whisnant

I teach crochet! Isn't it fun?! What are you working on?

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Sarah Dye

It is fun. Right now I'm focusing on trying to learn the basic stitches. I've only made coasters as well as the world's smallest cozy.

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Angela Whisnant

That’s great though! Keep practicing!

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Sarah Dye

Thanks! Feel free to share any tips or resources with me. Right now I'm using a guide to learn how to crochet and trying to watch YouTube videos. Do you have ideas for beginner crochet projects?

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Angela Whisnant • Edited

Here’s a great beginner project! All you need is some Peaches and Cream cotton yarn. ($1.89) @ Walmart) and a size H and G hooks. Let me know if you have any issues. Mug Rug

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Angela Whisnant

Here are some easy washcloths to try, as well! Have fun!
Dishcloth Pattern

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Angela Whisnant

One More! This is a youtube tutorial...super cute summer shawl! She also shows how to add fringe which should be useful for the mug rug pattern.
French Triangle Shawl

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Sarah Dye

Awesome! Thank you for all the project ideas. I'm going to definitely try these and see how I do. I especially am going to use the tutorial for the fringe on both the shawl and mug rug patterns.

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Yechiel Kalmenson

I'm a huge aviation geek!

I love everything about flying; I even took a few flying lessons but was never able to afford pursuing it all the way to getting my private pilot's license.

I'm hoping that now that my finances are getting in order I'll finally be able to go all the way! đŸ›©ïž

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Jonathan Kuhl • Edited

I went to college for flight operations but ran out of money because I couldn't land the stupid things. There was just something about landing I could not get down (pun semi intended?) so I never got to my solo. Moved on to another major after that.

Might try again some day, but it's expensive.

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Gift Egwuenu

Awesome! Yes you should go all the way.

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Thomas Leathers

Gaming, visual art (varied), music creation, fiction writing, and crafts. definitely one of those creative types, i am.

The best thing about being so varied in the arts, and a gamer, is that i have an advantage in the realm of game development. :)

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Gift Egwuenu

Cool! Have you given that a head start? Game development that is

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Thomas Leathers

well, i do have a few games written in python (using pygame). including a point and click adventure game engine. Much of my games however, im yet to properly finish.

As a side note, i also have written games for SBTCVM, my ternary computer simulator. Writing games in your own programming language, using your own development tools, and your own architecture, is a rather complex endeavor. (SBTCVM, as you might guess, takes a lot of work to develop, hence why my game developing is slightly lacking.)

:)

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Dillon Greek

I rebuild cars and do custom work like old school pinstriping. I really want to start doing upholstery.

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Gift Egwuenu

I had to look up pinstriping and upholstery but great job. đŸ’ȘđŸ’Ș

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Oleksii Holub

I also do photography. I love that it has very little in common with programming. :)

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Gift Egwuenu

Yay Awesome! 😎 I know right it’s entirely different and I love it

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Oleksii Holub

Yep. What kind of photography do you do?

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Gift Egwuenu

Mostly street photography.

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Oleksii Holub

Mine is almost entirely travel photography. Do you post your work on instagram?

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Gift Egwuenu

Yes I do sometimes instagram.com/lauragift_/

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Alvaro Montoro

Reading and cross-stitching... because there’s nothing more relaxing than stabbing something a million times 😋

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Gift Egwuenu

Haha now that’s a definition of fun. 😋

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Evan Oman

Mostly out of necessity: parenting, home improvement + maintenance, landscaping, tree planting + removal, with some travel thrown in there.

Clearing unwanted trees has actually been really enjoyable, there is no better indication of a job well done than open space where a tree used to be. Also watching our apple trees grow has been fun.

If only it was just as easy to measure the quality of my professional output...

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Gift Egwuenu

Haha. This sounds cool and I can tell you enjoy it.

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jibbi

I'm an avid quilter, i sell handmade dice bags on etsy, and I run!

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Nadine M. ThĂȘry

I used to quilt a lot. I still love it, but it is a solitary hobbie. I have changed for board games now.

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jibbi

I play board games too!! What is your favorite?

I joined a local modern quilt guild and that has taken the solitary part of quilting out :D

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Nadine M. ThĂȘry

So far my favourite is Power Grid, but we have more than 200 boardgames and it keeps changing hehe.

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jibbi

Power Grid is fun!! We have a bunch too. I think my favorites are Sentinels of the Multiverse, Ascension, Betrayal, Mansions of Madness, and Shadespire/Underworlds.

Do you go to GenCon or Essen or the like?

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Nadine M. ThĂȘry

Nah, so far we are attending the Spanish events, only. It's quite expensive going to Essen for us. Maybe one year :)

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Ben Halpern

Hiking!

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Gift Egwuenu

Pretty Cool 😎

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