I need a project. I am on holidays, I don't have a computer at hand and can only code small things on my phone, mainly in python... Sad thing is I don't have any idea what to code.

Give me your challenges (please), so I can keep mental health!

P.S: if anyone has a working way to use Node.js on Android, I'd be glad to take it :)

how about reading a book that doesn't have to do anything with coding? Life has more to offer that you can think about than code.

@Fast-Nop I've read three novels this week and now I miss development... :(

@TheOct0 I don't mean novels, I got that you are missing something to really think about. That's common with intelligent people.

@Fast-Nop Oh I get what you mean! Yeah, I'm missing something to put my mind at and 100% think about for some time. I don't know about me being intelligent, but I truly need some mind exercise

@Fast-Nop I'll add that I bought 4 different new Rubik's Cubes in the past week x)

@RantSomeWhere From the game I guess Termux is a Linux terminal emulator?

@TheOct0 I'm a really fast reader, but "Oswald Spengler - Decline of the West" brought me to my limits. After each 50 pages or so, I noticed that I wasn't able to actually follow up and had to pause and think.

Or, if you want something lighter and more useful for work life, "Macchiavelli - The Prince", and of yource "Sun Tzu - The Art of War". I'm regularly using bits and pieces of these, it makes life easier. Especially because nobody expects that from a dev.

@TheOct0 or you could go somewhat alone into nature. Not survival style, but some sort of renting a nice cabin in some forest area or so. Maybe books, but no internet.

After one week max, you'll be talking to yourself, and if you listen, you'll learn quite a lot about what is lurking underneath in your mind. It's a bit scary, but interesting.

@Fast-Nop Quite interesting. What are those books about?

And if I had to go in nature for a while, I wouldn't go without my sweetheart. If I went without her, the only thing I'd talk to myself about would be her absence :)

@TheOct0 Spengler puts up the interesting idea that cultures have a life cycle from birth to death, just like individuals, and that each phase is marked by characteristic traits. Going from historical data about other cultures, he gauges who we are, where we are and what's next. The plot twist is that the book appeared a century ago so that a lot of what was future for him is now past for us.

Sun Tzu was an ancient Chinese general who put together strategic thinking, and his works are still regarded in modern military, so they have stood the test of time. Civil applications are where, when and how to deal with resistance or conflict.

Macchiavelli expands that less in terms of conflict; we would call it management. It's knowledge of power, and everyone who makes career knows that stuff even if he hasn't read it. To give a very basic example: deal out good news individually, but bad news as package. You will be remembered more for the good news because you bring them more often.

@Fast-Nop Nice! I might give those books a try next time I find a library :)

@TheOct0 you can find them on the internet so that you can read them on the phone that you still have. :-)

Another classic could be "Laozi - Tao Te Ching". That's much less text to read than the others, and at first, it seems a bit like babble - it takes quite some thought to get it, but then you know why that book is still read after 2500 years.

Very difficult to describe because, as he would put it, what you can describe isn't the point behind it. Unity of opposites is one aspect. The art of not-doing in a way that has the flow with it.

@Fast-Nop Sounds nice! I hate reading on my phone though, so if I want to have any kind of chance to actually read it I'll have to get it as a book :)