Other than programming, I enjoy coding...

Since professional programming is my job, in my free time I enjoy coding, especially game development :D

But to be honest, my "non-coding" hobbies are:

• cycling - I really like to clean my mind with an hour or two on the road (with some coding podcast in my headphones)
• playing video games - mostly online multiplayer games like MMOs, MOBA etc.
• reading books - fantasy, sf and crime stories!
• watching anime - AYAYA!!!!!!!!!!!!!

• Watching anime. Currently working through Lupin the Third, actively following Black Clover, One Piece, Boruto, Fire Force, and hoping for new seasons of My Hero Academia and One Punch man.
• Reading. Currently reading one of the better English translations of Miguel de Cervantes Saaverda’s El ingenioso hildago Don Quixote de la Mancha. Probably reading either J.R.R. Tolkein’s translation of Beowulf or Mervyn Peake’s Gormenghast trilogoy, unless of course one of the various ranobe I actively read gets a new volume in English before I get there.
• Cooking. I’m a bit of a gourmand, and unfortunately much of the international cuisine that I particularly enjoy is not readily available in the area where I live (and what cuisines are often do not include many of the things I actually like from those cuisines), so i have to cook such food myself. This, in turn, has lead to me seriously impressing some relatives with comparatively simple dishes like gravlax or yakisoba simply because they’ve never even heard of them before, let alone tried them.
• Video games. Currently actively playing Warframe.
• Table-top RPGs. Just recently finished a homebrew D&D 5e campaign, currently playing in a Pathfinder 1e Kingmaker campaign, and working on building a homebrew Pathfinder 1e campaign.
• LEGO. Picked up again as a hobby in the past year or so after having not done anything with LEGOs for years. Mostly focused on cars and other vehicles. I’ve built both the Lamborghini Siän and Bugatti Chiron sets (and plan to get the new McLaren and Ferrari sets coming out 2021-01-01), as well as a custom build of a Morgan Motors Three-Wheeler, and I’m currently working on a motorized Avtoros Shaman, though that’s on-hold until I can find an ABS-safe semi-dry lubricant that won’t make a mess everywhere (which is much easier said than done as it’s apparently difficult to find one that doesn’t include solvents that will degrade ABS in some way).

Exercise!

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I am fascinated by games and the e-sport industry. Recently, I have seen an increase in the popularity of esports games. This article describes it perfectly. By the way, the game will be very profitable if you use it in esports.

I enjoy drawing, painting with watercolor, cooking, playing video games, and sometimes stream it on Twitch. But I also discovered I can grow veggies and herbs on my balcony, so yeah, gardening as well :D

Apart from programming I usually fix my friends code, and contributing in open source.

Apart from programming?
Coding. Software development. Writing about such activities. Or speaking about them. Not to mention reading about software. Hm....

Other than programming I love music, listening and playing. I play guitar. I also have 4 songs on Spotify and iTunes!
I also play soccer every once and a while.

Lockdown actually gave me the time to be able to get something new out. For the longest time I have admired illustrators and decided to give it a go. I started with brush pens and have discovered a lot over the course of 2020. My kids have enjoyed using the brush pens too and I’ve started using watercolour pencils to see how they work for me. There’s so much to learn and practice on and I recently started an online illustration course.

I’m also trying my hand at learning to use vector design tools, for illustrations, designs and icons.

I love writing! I write mysteries and other fiction, as well as programming books.

I'm also a songwriter and solo pianist composer.

And I spend probably more time than is healthy playing Minecraft, and sometimes making data packs for it.

Besides all of that, I like cooking and baking, and gardening if I have the opportunity. I'd like to get back into raising chickens one of these days too...but I have to have the space to do that, and an apartment doesn't oblige that pursuit.

At the moment I enjoy:

• Family time
• Math
• Reading (Lutheran theology, philosophy, sci-fi/fantasy)
• Puzzle and Indie Games

I spend a lot of time inside my own head. Thankfully my family pulls me out from time to time.

lol I have too many to count

• Photography
• Rollerblading
• Hiking, fishing, general outdoor activities, etc.
• Reading
• Video games
• Guitar
• Cooking
• Electronics and computing

My primary hobby is playing Magic: the Gathering. I play practically every major MtG format but I absolutely love Cube drafting.

My other hobbies include:

• Exercise, especially weightlifting. Deadlifts are my absolute favorite!
• Reading, basically all non-fiction. Usually tech/programming but I also like topics like Existentialism, pop-psych, Stoicism, & social-justice.
• Video Games, mostly Ark Survival Evolved with my best friend on our private heavily modded server. I also love my Switch; been playing Hades and Ori.
• Star Wars RPG. FantasyFlight Games has a spectacular custom dice system for role-playing and I've been playing a campaign with friends for over 4 years now.
• "Lazy" Gardening: I've got some raised plots in my backyard and like to just scatter seeds and see what grows without upkeep! Kale, carrots, and potatoes are particularly hearty crops.

looking at panda pics, drawing (check me out at Instagram @monsterpandita #ShamelessSelfPromotion), videogames, reading, sleeping, and explaining the Venezuelan social-economic-political issues (through my perspective of course!) and culture... even if I receive condescending answers from time to time, I'm still pretty passionate about my home country and I love to explain stuff about it :3