[bayindirh]

Curiosity.

You start with a "What if", and it tends to nibble at the back of your brain. Then it evolves to "Why not?"

You hack it and see the light, or more specifically you fail to find a reason for the "not" part, and you make it.

And yes, there's an immense satisfaction for doing it. Not from "look at me" angle, but from "ach, it was possible, and I made it. It turned out I was capable enough to make it work. Let me get some tea" angle.

I like feats like this. Honestly kudos to them. Both impressive and fun. Delightful, more precisely.

[myownclone]

Exactly! Curiosity, desire to learn and also desire for satisfaction that it brings, when you finally got something like this running. It wasn't all shiny though, that audio issue became pretty frustrating until I discovered that it is not an issue of audio code itself, but the Watch speaker just does not like certain low frequencies.

Also, thanks for the kind words!

[athenot]

"What if?" is the one thing that brought me into computing as a hobby when I was a teen and has consistently been with me in my 2+ decades of work. Everyone has different motivators, but for me, this has been the single most powerful driver of all my successful projects.

Along the way, I learned that when "what if?" becomes "I have to", the drive in me just dies. So I've had to learn how to stay in "what if?" mindset even when I have a deliverable I have committed to.

Sometimes, this means picking at a totally unimportant part of a project, getting it working and then—while in the same mental groove—shift to delivering the core feature.