Many of my personal projects have only existed because of deadlines.
If you go to shows or conferences, showing or talking about something is the best way to have something, and the deadline focuses you like nothing else.
(that said, sometimes I wonder if I would have something much more polished with a last-minute magical 2-week reprieve)
> If you go to shows or conferences, showing or talking about something is the best way to have something, and the deadline focuses you like nothing else.
The same applies for a personal project that's delivered as a gift to a family or friend. I guess I should write sometime about the Raspberry Pi-based Christmas present I gave my father in 2014, even though he stopped using it scarcely a year later. For this thread, the point is that the deadline made this the only personal coding side project that I've completed in several years.
If you go to shows or conferences, showing or talking about something is the best way to have something, and the deadline focuses you like nothing else.
(that said, sometimes I wonder if I would have something much more polished with a last-minute magical 2-week reprieve)