Dhar

Your phone doesn't have one? Pssshhht!

Waterfox bypassed my ad blocking DNS and served me ads. I uninstalled it, not gonna try it again until they get serious about privacy.

Who are you and why are you me?

Oh my gosh, that's it! He's trying to buy himself a friend!

A stick of RAM? I fold.

They didn't read that chapter

Maybe she was drunk and really did hand in her registration?

Flying around in my corvette unable to complete the "build and fly your corvette" mission makes me think maybe they haven't been doing that?

How about fixing the bugs first?

Came here for the "Smoked Pikachu", left depressed.

I am a veteran programmer of >40 years and this is the right answer. Find a project that interests you, probably one tied to another of your hobbies, and just go at it. Don't look to find if someone else has already done this project - they probably have and you'll be discouraged from trying. Learn what you need as you need it; don't try to "learn enough" to get started. It's programming, you'll never know enough. The best way to learn to program is to program.

Some personal examples: I write random generators for TTRPGs, I'm making a better UI for a cheap digital oscilloscope I bought for measuring audio equipment, I have a couple little wheeled robots I tinker on, I like to write MCP servers for LLM assistants, and I've got dozens of little projects or custom tools.

Go for it.