Hobby-oriented programming

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Hobby-oriented programming argues that hobby work produces unexpected projects and learning: a weekend project became Avy: horoscope by nearest airport which gets a location, finds the closest airport and generates an air sign and runs live; someone ports a CHIP-8 VM and makes Pong as chip eight emulator in Rust; experts in 1863 recorded a 40-game checkers championship: 40 draws 21 identical showing how memorized patterns limit novelty. Tools named include JavaScript, Chrome devtools, the terminal and Rust; pair programming accelerates real skill.

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1. 0:00Introduction
2. 0:54Life is chaotic
3. 3:10What is an amateur
4. 6:13Rails Girls Workshop
5. 10:35Chess
6. 14:15Hobbies
7. 15:35Reality is broken
8. 16:01Four core ingredients
9. 17:15A less thrilling scenario
10. 19:30Conclusion

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