Side projects are often the best way to keep you sane, and keep up with new thinking! But, not only weekend projects... doesn't google give their engineers time to explore ideas outside of their day to day tasks? I've often wondered what leaps and bounds my group could have made if they were scheduled time to take a step back and experiment with new ideas rather than constantly marching to the accepted task drum.
On weekends, I'm either building AI-powered toasters for fun or perfecting my recipe for coding-themed cupcakes. What about you? Any tech side projects cooking in your creative oven this weekend?