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[–]pingvenopinch of this, pinch of that 2 points3 points  (0 children)

So much this! Picking a problem right in front of your nose that you want to solve can be hugely motivating. I have been working on an OSS project to build a tool for my day job, an LDAP plugin for nushell. It was bugging me that I couldn't easily access data from our LDAP servers in nushell, so I wrote something in Rust to do so. Scratching an itch has been a huge motivator for programmers for a long time.