I love this so much.

https://m.youtube.com/@thepop-upchannel4919

Voice recognition tool that toggles audio triggers to be used by Parkinson's patient for improved mobility.

Synthetic aperture radar scraper and aggregator across international public satellite providers.

And reading statistics in my free time.

you might enjoy reading "tribe", "braiding sweet grass", "The dawn of everything", and "The new trail of tears"

they have very helpful history in understanding how poverty is manufactured, within the context of colonial capitalism.

"listening in the ocean" by lammers can give you a resource for applications of audio programming. it's all about marine acoustics

elm or prolog

I like you missed the timeline this year, but next year "Google Summer of Code"

NextCloud

I'm very slow to read text, but audiobooks and podcasts have completely consumed my free time.

honestly, I've done this several times. if you have the money to go half a year without trouble, and your career has been good so far, you can probably do fine. It is extremely hard to juggle working while interviewing. I've only done it a couple times, but it really meant waking up at 5:00 in the morning so I could get interviews done before my day started. if you're honest about why you left a job, it doesn't seem like people really care. also you have to stay active in work while you were not employed. have a project you want to work on, or a thing you want to learn, now is the time. People love to see that

Dwarf Fortress