I've used the time to finish a few personal tools/projects I had only in my head or task manager (all in Python). I have actively tried to avoid more "work related" side projects, so I have avoided any Scala or data engineering related ideas I've had also for a while.

- A project templating system based on a single Markdown file: (https://github.com/rberenguel/motllo)

- Generating a graph visualisation of my notes in the app Bear, with Graphviz (https://github.com/rberenguel/bear-note-graph)

- A task-executiont tool, a bit like make (https://github.com/rberenguel/paque)

I have also brushed up on D3.js (for a project which hasn't appeared yet, but the result will also be used for the notes graph as an alternative to Graphviz) and generative coding (using p5js and threejs, the latter for fragment shader fractal stuff, https://github.com/rberenguel/sketches, most are still not up there, but only around my twitter feed). The generative coding path is also taking me towards tone.js and ORCΛ, but so far I have only dabbled in them.

I have also tried to spend a bit less time close to the computer per se (the generative "exploration" is done on my iPad mini in the sofa while watching something, for a start), and I have also tried to play some more music (ukulele, harmonica)

Edit: I always forget comments here are not written in Markdown