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Whatโ€™s Your Hobby! ๐Ÿ‘€

๐“๐ก๐ž ๐‹๐š๐ณ๐ฒ ๐†๐ข๐ซ๐ฅ on August 11, 2026

My hobby๐Ÿง My first and absolute favorite hobby is travelling around the world. ๐ŸŒโœˆ๏ธ I love visiting different countries, experiencing their cultu...
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Nnamdi Felix Ibe

Four countries and three languages, and you still had room for a third hobby. Respect.

Mine is cooking. Most of my weekend disappears into it, usually into something I've never made before. I love food, but what really keeps me at it is that food is the fastest way into a real conversation with someone. Ask anybody about the dish they grew up on, and you'll get their whole family history in five minutes.

Some of what I've worked through so far:

๐Ÿ‡ฎ๐Ÿ‡ณ Masala dosa. Crisp shell, that gentle sour tang from the fermented batter, and the potato inside doing all the comfort work.

๐Ÿ‡จ๐Ÿ‡ณ Mapo tofu. The Sichuan pepper doesn't burn so much as buzz. Your lips go numb, and you keep eating anyway.

๐Ÿ‡ฏ๐Ÿ‡ต Tonkotsu ramen. Broth rich enough to coat the spoon. Hours of work for something you finish in ten minutes.

๐Ÿ‡ฌ๐Ÿ‡ง Steak and ale pie. Deep malty gravy and pastry that has no business being that good.

๐Ÿด๓ ง๓ ข๓ ณ๓ ฃ๓ ด๓ ฟ Haggis. Peppery, oaty, properly savoury. Much better than its reputation, and I'll defend that.

๐Ÿ‡ฉ๐Ÿ‡ช Currywurst. Sweet, tangy, slightly spicy sauce over good sausage. Simple, and it just works.

๐Ÿ‡บ๐Ÿ‡ธ Texas brisket. Salt, pepper, smoke, twelve hours. That's the whole recipe, and it's still hard to get right.

Japanese next is a great call, by the way. The food alone justifies it.

As for talking to trees, that's honestly the most underrated hobby on your list. They listen, they never interrupt, and they never leave you on read. Just tell us immediately if one replies. ๐Ÿ˜‚

My weird one: I read other companies' outage postmortems for fun. Someone else's very bad Tuesday, documented in full detail. It's the closest thing my industry has to true crime.

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xulingfeng

Let me recommend a dish โ€” it's called Wo Tofu (sauce-drenched tofu). Ingredients: soft tofu, chopped spring onions, cornstarch, salt, soy sauce, and water.
First, heat some oil in a wok. Pour in the soft tofu โ€” remember to crumble it into pieces first โ€” then add a splash of soy sauce. Once the tofu changes color, keep stir-frying, then pour in some boiling water. Add a small spoon of salt. Next, scoop two spoonfuls of cornstarch into a small bowl, mix with water, and pour the slurry into the wok. Stir a few times and you'll see the sauce start to thicken. Kill the heat and scatter in some chopped spring onions at the same time. Then dig in โ€” it's incredibly satisfying and goes great with rice. ๐Ÿคค

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Nnamdi Felix Ibe

Saving this, thank you. On the list for one of my weekends.

You mention waiting for it to change colour, so I'm guessing that matters more here than usual.

I'll report back on how badly I mangle it. ๐Ÿ˜„

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xulingfeng

A man who cooks is a good-looking man, and you clearly qualify. ๐Ÿ˜„

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Nnamdi Felix Ibe

HaHa, I'll take that. ๐Ÿ˜„ Though the kitchen will tell you a different story once I'm finished with it.

By that logic, you're doing fine yourself, handing out recipes like that.

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xulingfeng

Damn right โ€” confidence is handsome, haha ๐Ÿคฃ

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xulingfeng

You actually talk to trees? I'm starting to suspect you're into cultivation (like xianxia cultivation ๐Ÿ˜‚). Where I'm from, lots of people hug trees โ€” they believe you can absorb the tree's spiritual energy that way. Everything has a spirit, after all. ๐ŸŒณโœจ
As for me, my hobbies are video games and reading. Games aside โ€” for reading, I've been following one web novel for 7 years now. And when I really like a book, I'll reread it at least seven times. Any genre works, as long as it clicks with me.

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๐“๐ก๐ž ๐‹๐š๐ณ๐ฒ ๐†๐ข๐ซ๐ฅ

Reading is such an interesting hobby, especially when you get so into a story that you completely lose yourself in it. And gaming is definitely one of the best hobbies, but honestly, the real-life games people play with us can be pretty interesting too. By the way, do you want to know why I talk to trees?

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xulingfeng

Sure, we'd all love to know!

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Iโ€™m from Rajasthan, which is roughly the size of Japan in terms of area. During COVID, I planted around 100 trees, and about โ‚น5,000 (around $60) was spent on their care and maintenance. At that time, people would tell me, โ€œYouโ€™re going to spend all your money taking care of these trees. Youโ€™re a student, youโ€™re studying too, and on top of that, youโ€™re a girl. This isnโ€™t right.โ€ From the very beginning, people had a problem with what I was doing. They would criticize my trees and even criticize me.

But then I noticed that some of the trees were slowly drying out. I started feeling that maybe all the negativity around them was affecting them somehow, so I began talking to them. I would speak positively to them, encourage them, and simply spend time with them. Gradually, they started growing again, and today there are more than 300 trees there.

There are also many birds and squirrels living around them now. The sweetest part is that whenever I go there, many of the birds and squirrels come and sit around me. But when someone else approaches, they usually move away.

Maybe trees donโ€™t understand our words in the same way we do, but spending time with nature has always made me feel a special kind of connection with it.

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Actually, I think you're wrong about one thing โ€” the trees did understand you. Or maybe it's that your souls resonated with each other. You gave them a reason and the confidence to keep living, and their answer was to grow strong. That's beautiful. This is what true harmony with nature looks like. ๐ŸŒณ

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Michael Krupnyak

Mine doesn't have a tidy name, so I'll show you instead.

A group I followed once posted a game: a drawing of a room, and for every object in it you had to name a song. The objects were easy enough. Then I dragged my cursor across an empty patch of wall for no reason, and a hover state I wasn't meant to find lit up a big heart where nothing had been. The song for it arrived before I'd finished grinning.

That's the whole hobby - noticing the thing that sits one layer under the obvious. Some mornings a half-finished coffee cup says more than a roomful of talk ๐Ÿ™‚

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Athreya aka Maneshwar

Chesss all the way! Iโ€™m not a pro or anything, just around 940 ELO in Rapid, but yeah, itโ€™s a fun hobby.

You can find me on chess.com/member/lovestaco

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Mustafa ERBAY

Mine is probably building things that I absolutely donโ€™t need to build. ๐Ÿ˜‚

I can spend a perfectly peaceful weekend setting up a server, self-hosting something that already has a perfectly good SaaS version, breaking it, fixing it, monitoring itโ€ฆ and then writing about why it broke.

I also have a dangerous habit of reading incident reports and infrastructure postmortems for fun. ๐Ÿ˜„ Thereโ€™s something fascinating about following the chain from โ€œeverything looks fineโ€ to โ€œone tiny configuration choice took half the platform down.โ€

And when Iโ€™m not abusing CPUs, networks, or Docker containers, I like exploring new technologies just to understand how they work under the hood.

So I guess my hobby is basically:

Curiosity โ†’ build โ†’ break โ†’ debug โ†’ learn โ†’ repeat. ๐Ÿ”ฅ

Talking to trees sounds considerably less stressful, though. ๐ŸŒณ๐Ÿ˜‚

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leob • Edited

Cycling! I live in an area with brilliant trails and paths through beautiful nature, so that's what I mainly do to chill and relax when I'm not behind a computer monitor :-)

P.S. used to do scuba diving, which is cool and fascinating, but it's been years now since I last did that ... nah, it's cycling for me now, and has been for 10+ years - very low barrier, no hassle, no planning, jump on that bicycle and go!

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๐“๐ก๐ž ๐‹๐š๐ณ๐ฒ ๐†๐ข๐ซ๐ฅ

You like cycling, and I like riding a bike. Theyโ€™re pretty similar, but honestly, yours sounds way more fun! :D