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title: Build more useless things (_for fun_)
tags: [Development, Personal, Goals]

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# Build more useless things (_for fun_)

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The other night I was explaing to my oldest daughter the effort I put (*as a child*) into creating the most un-useful and mundain things on my Apple IIe, like a BASIC app that just showed a progress bar that generated random `sleep` times so the progress bar would feel real. That's in, just a stupid app that doesn't really do anything... I was explaining this to her because she felt she had to build (*not a computer program*) something useful in order to build it.

The thing I explained to her is that I had **SO MUCH FUN**! As an adult, I don't have that much fun building actual useful things. Building un-useful things come with no risk.

## Taking my own advise

I need to learn a lot of things, especially with the way that WordPress is growing and changing. I feel the frontend-side of me slipping away from me slowly, and I still want to be considered full-stack.

And so, I'm going to take my own advise and start spending some time just building useless things _on purpose!_ I want to look into more NextJS stuff, Tailwind, Chakra UI, and just build some wild stuff that isn't necessarily WordPress or for a purpose (*though I will be building a sort-of useful [block](https://wordpress.org/support/article/blocks/) as a part of all this*).

```
10 DO USELESS THING
20 LEARN THINGS
30 GOTO 10
```

Now to carve out the time to do this...