A project is an undertaking on which one dedicates one's leisure time. Building things, writing things, tinkering with things. Doing stuff. It could be anything: a math research paper; participation in an Olympiad; or writing a bootloader in Assembly. I consider anything I spend time on to be a project of some scale.
There is a saying among people of IT industry, not just programmers, that after some time of getting started with programming, you need to find something that interests you the most, something that you can focus on, and work on. It could be a couple of things. But generally, people choose one or two.
I try to grow as CTF player, primarly in Binary Exploitation and Reverse Engineering, learn how to write proper OpenGL and Vulkan, and stay active in Competitive Programming (CSES, Codeforces).
Game of Life implementation in Cpp using the OpenGL API.
Simple HTTP server, written in C99.
A simple status bar for Wayland compositors. TOML based configuration. Written in Rust.
An implementation of the Soltaire card game using OpenGL, Bevy and Rust.
Video to ASCII tool written in Haskell and OpenCV.
My own homelab just because want to be independent from surveilance.
Image to ASCII tool made in Rust and image crate.
Simple system fetch written in Rust.
An ASCII terminal card game coded in pure Java from scratch over the course of 4 days. Implements basic client-server communication.
Plugin for the NVim text editor in Lua.
A terminal-based dice roller written in C in <50 lines.
CTF programme organised by CINI oriented for Italian high school students.
My progress on the training program can be seen on training.olicyber.it under the username eto.
Another CTF programme presented by CINI. Selections are more geared towards those attending Italian universities.
A Programming competition organised by MIT students, in which players must develop an AI system / strategy to beat the others. I participated with a friend under the name risc.
FIDE active player. Since a small kid participate in many tournaments, in Ukraine reached the 2nd Nationals title. In Italy have just started exploring local scene.