I'm four months in my new job and I've done 5 days worth of coding. There aren't much projects coming to our office nowadays so I'm being paid just to log my hours.

Any of the ranters here have any small project ideas I can make to pass the time?

I've literally run out of things to make.

When I first started my job I spent 4 weeks reading there "documentation" it was a 6 page word document documenting the input/outputs of a few custom functions. Finally started to do some development and the file was about two years out of date and to this date I've never used one of the functions

Develop your own framework! ITS going to consume all your time and maybe speed up your development process on future projects!

@uziiuzair I honestly would love to but, I kinda want to go release small and plenty projects than work on something big without a release in months! 😁

@jaggy in that case, why not develop small pieces of code that you know will help you through your development?

They don't have to be part of projects, but small snippets that can do crazy thing? :p

@uziiuzair yeah. I'm running out of things to make. I made a small frontend compiler and small modules for auth and a cms. It's just kinda fun building things that not only devs you see, you know what I mean?

I even automated my office workflow where it sends to basecamp all my commits as logs, and messages skype the moment my laptop connects to the office wifi.

@jaggy you should publish those on github! :O I would love to check them out :D

@uziiuzair sure! I'm having a friend design for the frontend tool, but my work scripts are on https://github.com/jaggy/...

I'd love to see some of your open source stuff too! :D

Create a Social Network.

@jaggy you should try making Easter eggs! Something I love doing! 😁😁

I'll definitely post my stuff online. Lemme set it up :D

@uziiuzair can't wait. I also posted an ideas repo of things I don't have time to make. I wish it had more traction for conversation. :D

@uziiuzair what do you mean by easter eggs though? :-?

@jaggy I'll check it out haha :D

@jaggy Easter eggs in development. Hidden Gems in code that can be seen by end users. I usually hide games or text in my designs. So if someone uses a special key combination, they can access the game.

Although I have yet to leave an Easter Egg in the wild, I think I will add one in my magazine site.

@uziiuzair oh. Like the dinosaur! I might try that in the next site I make.

@jaggy Yeah something like that haha.

@jaggy find random processes in the company that you can automate... small tools to help other teams with daily tasks etc

Do code reviews. I haven't seen any code yet that can't be improved.

@zareef Yeah. I've automated the teams logging, frontend css utilities, scrum logs, and breaks.

I'm just at the point where I want to do something that's public facing than scripts that only devs or peers can see.