James Read's Code, Containers & Cloud blog

So many interactions with friends, family and coworkers now happen via our chat apps, and so many of the best bits of these chats just scroll by and are forgotten. Faridoon is a simple app that lets you save and publish your favourite chat quotes for you to save, for your community, or for the world to see. I was inspired to write Faridoon a long time ago, when I was chatting with friends mostly on Mumble chat.

This article is about how I often invest time in ambitious projects just for the joy of working on the project, often without the intention of finishing or publishing the project. By the end of this article I hope you can see why investing your time in such projects is interesting and useful, so you can understand why I spend so much time on this, and why you might consider doing the same too.