Coding Hobbyists - Why do you code?

[cafeenman]

I mean it's fun and educational but mostly I code for a few reasons.

First, I feel like I have unique requirements.

I'm a model-builder and the first thing I tried to do in QBasic was plot airfoils.

I didn't know what an array was and an airfoil can have over 100 x,y cooridinate on the top and the bottom of the airfoil.

So in my first attempt I actually created 200 variables to hold that data.

Also, quality of life stuff that I want in an app. Behaviors that I want, for example.

Almost every "real" application I use has stuff that really annoys me. For example, Ribbons in MS Office just suck. I format as I go and ribbons mean clicking all over the place just to format a table and table entries.

Toolbars are just better. It's all in one place.

My latest app runs my business. I'm too lame to learn real accounting software which is way too much for my needs with a steep learning curve and most of the stuff I will never use.

It's been a journey and I think I've peaked way lower than I want to be but I don't have the time or motivation I used to have.

And all the utility apps I wrote I've found far better freeware versions of that do more better than anything I ever wrote such as file renamers and that sort of thing.

I lost my plot here.