I’m looking for inspiration! And I’m just curious about where do people get their inspiration.
Feel free to share the GitHub repo 
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When I was 12 I wrote a command line app that asked for a person’s age, and then if it happened to be my dad’s age or older, it would make fun of them and call them an old fart.
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I’m a little hesitant to post it because it’s the most elaborate thing I’ve coded and this is my 1st time sharing it publicly:
a personal finance app
http://belcurv.com/pfapp/#/fire-calc
I’ve been hacking away on that for a long time. Version 1 was comically bad. I have a few more functions and responsive-ness to add to the portfolio feature, and it needs a landing page that’s not just a wall of text. But I’m pretty happy with how it’s shaped up so far.
This one far less complicated but more fun:
fibonacci thing
http://belcurv.com/fibonacci/
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###Pretty awesome stuff
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(Warning, those offended by science might not like this reply. I’ll keep it as gentle as possible since I’m not trying to offend.)
I made an evolution simulator, that takes random text strings and interbreeds them in order to evolve an exact match of a user-input word or phrase.
The inspiration came from talking to a door-knocker from a church group, who told me that the whole concept of evolution by natural selection was like blowing up a library and having the pieces fall and assemble the complete works of Shakespeare. I was like “that’s a ridiculous thing to say… but a great idea for an app!”
The end result was Word Evolution, which needs some UX work, but is still one of my favorite personal projects.
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This is so freaking awesome, but your source code link is broken.
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Among other things I’ve been working on a game engine for almost 10 years now: GemRB.
The hard part is that it’s a reverse engineering project with some of the strangest behaviour/decisions I’ve ever seen (DailyWTF worthy) in the originals. Unfortunately some have to be replicated …
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I had this friend, Santiago, he would spam me over Facebook (copying and pasting the message on the chatbox), it was a bit annoying, so I opened Visual Studio and wrote a program in C# that had an input box, in which you could type a message and then a button to fire a hell a lot of messages per second, if I remember correctly it was about 500 messages/s, eventually his Messenger app would collapse and his Browser client as well.
That was pretty funny to be honest 
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That’s pretty sweet! So p5.js is a JS port of processing? Interesting. I remember learning “javascript” at Khan academy, and only later learning that what they actually taught me was processing.js. I did make an interactive fishtank for my daughter with the library though:
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Yes, it’s basically “Processing redone for js”. It also has a DOM library, which I used quite a lot.
I recommend Dan Shiffman’s youtube channel if you want to learn p5.js.
Just posting the link put a big picture of me here, so I spared you the pain.
http://github.com/stillmattwest/word_evolutionThat one didn’t work either. Looks like the correct link is http://github.com/stillmattwest/word_evolution
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Well, that’s embarrassing.I don’t know what happened to that underscore, all I did is cut and paste. Oh well, at least it’s up now!
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Markdown interpreted it as the code for _italics_. You had the leading _ and also the one in the URL. It italicized everything in between the two.
Edit to add: your app breaks on my desktop (Win7) in Firefox. I click start, type in some word/s and then evolve, and the modal just disappears.
Edit to add more: it works in IE 11 though. Never thought I’d see the day…
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Must be something recent in Firefox, I originally tested in Chrome, Firefox and IE. If I ever do an update I’ll have to fix the bug.
Your word evolution app is fantastic, by the way.
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Awesome app! Do you mind if I share it with my church group? 
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Probably the one that made me laugh the most was the “Highly Inappropriate Quote Generator” I made for the Random Quote Generator challenge:
The one I think is the coolest, is a 10+ year project and the one I spend most of my days working on. It’s a web-based, photography management application that I use to run my business - downloading images, culling/tagging, cropping, ordering, poster design, customer management, order fulfillment, output via photoshop, upload to lab, etc., etc. … It’s not online (runs on our own servers, which we travel with), but I talk about it on our website a bit here, under the Our Software section:
http://volleyball.michealhallphotography.com/#tournaments-main
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i love all the long term personal projects…gives me hope for my own which i’ve yet to start. i keep waiting until I “know enough”