I am currently doing that right now! :) Building a little card game just using plain old HTML,CSS,and traditional JS.

I do this on a regular. Just build something from scratch. Typically ends up being a single page website but hey, I'm just playing around. It's nice to get back to the basics.

A couple of days ago. I was benchmarking some JavaScript snippets. No dependencies, except the DevTools Console API.

It's been a couple of months, when Im asked to develop a carrousel or something kind of 'extra' I tend to create a new folder and develop it from scratch as long as it's something kind of basic with not a lot of features; why? because developing something complex with a lot of features from scratch would take a lot of time, will have bugs that then will have to be taken care of... in those cases I always use a plugin. But it's always good to create your own stuff experimenting yourself.

last week. :)

Well, a few months ago I was working on a little JS library, a small jQuery type thing, but I haven't touched it in a while.

I've been fiddling with my personal branding as well, mostly graphic (logo, website etc.), but it's so hard to design for yourself :( I've got a few new ideas I want to work out, mostly HTML/CSS though. From there I'll see if it works :)

It's always fun to just fool around, even if it's just with HTML and CSS, just to test things out if it'll work. Even if it's been done dozens of times and there's loads of tutorials, just fiddle around :)

I'm hoping to have a bit more time later on in the year to do these kinds of things though, I miss it :(

There is a number of 'fiddlers' around the web for doing quick prototyping, such as jsfiddle.net, codepen.io, es6fiddle.net... Now, even https://fiddles.io/ exists... they gathered a respectful list of web-based prototyping pads there, for different languages. I can see that there is new great updates coming into codepen.io each day, so maybe other developers too much love the chrome console, as much as I am?