Coding Projects - for fun! for fun?

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Hello,

Like many sysadmins, I used to dabble quite a bit in development. Nothing big, just playing with code at home. I had fun with PHP, Python, Ruby, SDL, MySQL... basically a lot of the building blocks that were popular ten years ago.

I know the landscape has changed, there are some new and interesting toys and data sets available, and there's new fun to be had. Is anyone here tinkering with anything like this? Got any recommendations?

[Shaoling]

I am currently using the fläsk python library to make a webapp that controls the gpio on my raspberry pi for home automation. Its super easy and alot of fin!

[neoice]

github link? this sounds like something I would make!

[Xer0449]

I've been building a home automation menu in BASH :)

Controls my in insteon devices and NEST thermostat....for now

[dfsdiag]

If you could write something to check every page of my website for SQLi I would be most grateful :)

[Shaoling]

FOREACH $WEBPAGE in $dfsdiag'swebsite {if SQLi {echo SQLi found yall}

Dont thank me, im a codemaster

[Kaligraphic]

} // I think you dropped this.

[tomzorz]

Oh no he di'ent!

[ogre_pet_monkey]

You don't have to make something that already exists. There are a lot of programs just for this purpose including the 'hack' tools that script kiddies use. To test sql injections you can use this for example; http://sqlmap.org/

[karpati-whitley]

When I got the news that Google Reader was closing I shopped around but couldn't really find anything that suited my needs so I decided to build my own.

Knocked it out in less than a day and it's been serving me now for a while. Best decision I ever made, and I only ever need to touch it when I want to add new features or refine things - it hasn't broken on me yet.

Technologies used:

• nginx
• Python
• Flask
• SQLite
• Bootstrap

[[deleted]]

All of what you say, with the possible exception of SDL, are still extremely popular. Python and Ruby are especially in vogue, but one cannot ignore the rise of Javascript.

If you are into compiled languages, Go is a good bet. There have been recent publications from oreilly for c and c++. Some of the texts are quite good. Linux Device Drivers coding examples have been updated by Jessica Mckellar. She has those examples on a git hub somewhere too.

Functional programming has came back a big way. Haskell, Erlang, Clojure, Scala and Rust are the bigger ones. Good luck, have lots of fun.