[facepalm]

These days I struggle to find a lot of use cases for non-IT-people to use programming. It makes a fine hobby, but not better than another hobby.

For a while I was enthusiastic about things like Greasemonkey which would have allowed people to modify the software they use on a daily base. But it doesn't seem to have taken off, and presumably web clients are increasingly more complex so that "greasemonkeying" become too complex, too.

Long story short - I'd be happy to hear about examples for ways that non-IT-people could improve their lives with programming.

I have even considered to donate part of my time to solving such problems, choosing from user-submitted problems.