Hey guys. This article isn't meant to be helpful, or motivational, or really have a point at all. I'm just feeling a whole lotta love for code right now and I want to let it out.

I took the weekend to focus on two pet projects. Neither of these projects are going to make me any money or advance my career in any way. They're just fun.

But you know what's fucking awesome? I was able to just have an idea, and bring it to LIFE (well, almost).

I've wanted to code a particular app since I was a beginner - a Tinder for Spotify, which would help people discover new music in a fun way. So this weekend I thought I'd give it a shot, and I literally got the whole thing working already. It's wild. When I was a beginner and had this idea, I had no idea how I would have achieved it. And now I can. In LESS THAN TWO DAYS. It's just so fucking cool.

Another project I started working on was a new gif library (because I hate Facebook and Facebook bought Giphy). I decided to make the backend with Go, because I had never used Go before and thought it would be a fun project to help me learn. And it was just awesome. Go is awesome. Learning a new coding language is the best thing ever - it reminded me of being a beginner and having that feeling when you finally get your code working, but without all the other shit that comes with being a beginner.

Coding has brought me so much joy and opportunity. And so much of that comes from the dumb pet project ideas I have and am able to bring to completion. It's just absolutely mindblowingly cool to have an idea and see it pan out right in front of your eyes. Like, I'm building shit. From the bottom up. By myself. My OWN IDEA. It's MY THING!

Man. It's so cool.

Anyway, yeah. Keep coding. Keep creating. Keep having dumb ideas and making them real. It is genuinely the best feeling ever.

(PS people seem to love Tinder for Spotify so I will be releasing it on App Store & Google Play in about a month.)