I often start personal coding projects on a weekend because I am passionate about programming. I wouldn't be here if I wasn't. The problem is that those projects don't get finished very often. The sorts of projects I do find myself finishing are the ones when I've been truly interested in the problem domain.

This isn't a ground breaking revelation. I just have to remind myself of this every now and again. My problem is not that I need to develop with passion, rather I should attempt to develop for things I am passionate about.

Being passionate about programming gives me a special benefit: I can come up with useful ideas for other programmers and implement them.

Unfortunately coming up with cool ideas for programming usually ends in finding somebody else is already halfway through implementing it.

Time to revisit my alt.pursuits for inspiration.