My kids. It’s been more than 26 years.

Mostly just bugfixes and maintenance now.

I maintain a handful of RimWorld mods, going on about 6 years now. They’re in a pretty stable and mature place so they don’t take too up much effort, but I do check for Steam commens a few times a day, to make sure nobody found any bugs or major issues.

My YouTube channel. Been at it for 10 years, haven’t even broken through the 100,000 subscribers ceiling yet. But it’s fun, so I keep doing it.

Classic luxury car restore for about a decade.

I’ve been building a media collection for over a decade and a half at this point. I have a bit of the original stuff, mainly music, from back then but I lost most of my collection a couple of times to drive crashes before I understood what backups were.

FeedTheMonkey https://github.com/jeena/FeedTheMonkey

A very simple river of news style RSS reader desktop frontend for TinyTinyRSS

The .gitignore file there has been created 10 years ago and I am still using it, but only seldom update it, but still.

My bedroom electronics maker lab setup probably qualifies. I’ve rewired LED’s and added some printed wire guides for my laptop stand’s Ethernet cable. I also hung my SMD parts bins, and built shelves for my DMM and scope. I started that around 6 months after I was disabled, so 10 years ago.

Does relearning how to read sheet music and basic chord shapes on the guitar every other year count? One day I’ll figure it out.

I’ve been working on a game reminiscent of Streets of Rage and Paper Mario. A beat-me-up RPG in Unity but I haven’t worked on It in a while due to work and burnout.

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Fiction writing. I started when I was very young, it’s by far my most long-runbing hobby.

My homelab is probably the longest running, but it runs things that I depend on, so I can’t say it’s much of a side project.

Probably Tesseract since I absolutely figured my interest would have fizzled out long ago.

When my parents first moved in to my childhood home in the mid-'80s, the 6-acre property was wide-open fields next to plowed farm land, with a handful of freshly planted trees scattered around the property. I loved to run and play across all the open land as a child.

When I was really young, my dad decided to let sections of our 6-acre plot of land go back to nature, because he didn’t have the time nor energy to care for it all.

When I was old enough to use our riding mower by myself, (around 10 years old) I made it a personal goal to reclaim some of the land. Which got me in trouble every time my dad caught me mowing down the tall grass. But apparently, my mother was also upset about the lost lawn. When my dad wasn’t home, she would go out and trim back the overgrowth so we had some semblance of lawn around the house.

When I turned 18, I joined the military and left home. About a decade into my service, my parents divorced and my mom moved out. When I retired from the service after 20 years served, my wife and I moved back in with my dad.

It turns out that my dad spent the past decade ignoring large chunks of the lawn. I came home to a literal forest on the property, where trimmed lawn and open grassy fields used to be. My dad was old and suffering from Parkinson’s Disease, so he wasn’t able to mow much anymore and pretty much gave up on the lawn. I did my best to keep it trim around the house, then I started cutting back overgrowth and the new trees forming in the yard.

It’s been almost 3 years since I moved back in. My dad passed away almost a year ago and I inherited my childhood home from him. I’m still spending my summers cutting back overgrowth and trimming/removing trees. This will probably take me another decade by myself to reclaim the land, but I intend to turn it back into a beautifully manicured property instead of the tangled, overgrown nightmare my dad left it to become.

I started 30 years ago on this side project and I’m still going today.

I’ve been working on my 3D printed Mini Macro Pad for a couple years now, slowly making improvements over time.

I just made a major step on one. I’ve been collecting small electronics of all sorts over the last 15 years or so, a lot of them pretty obscure. I just got a computer I wanted to use to build an inventory of everything and start a YouTube channel to highlight each item in the collection.