Mastodon and Pleroma are home to many communities filled with people like this! One of my favorite instances, Merveilles[1], is probably among the highest quality in terms of the people themselves and the projects they work on, but there are dozens of others with similar energy. Make an account somewhere[2][3] and see for yourself!
Oh, and if you're willing to leave the Web, there's also Gemini[4]. Here are some proxied links to aggregators, CAPCOM[5] and Spacewalk[6], where you can find all sorts of people writing about their intimate personal projects, technological and otherwise (although mostly technological).
02. [A Note On Distributed Computing – Jim Waldo, Geoff Wyant, Ann Wollrath, Sam Kendall](https://www.cc.gatech.edu/classes/AY2010/cs4210_fall/papers/...)
03. [The Next 700 Programming Languages – P. J. Landin](http://thecorememory.com/Next_700.pdf)
04. [Can Programming Be Liberated from the von Neumann Style? – John Backus](http://www.csc.villanova.edu/~beck/csc8310/BackusFP.pdf)
05. [Reflections on Trusting Trust – Ken Thompson](http://users.ece.cmu.edu/~ganger/712.fall02/papers/p761-thom...)
06. [Lisp: Good News, Bad News, How to Win Big – Richard Gabriel](https://www.dreamsongs.com/Files/LispGoodNewsBadNews.pdf)
07. [An experimental evaluation of the assumption of independence in multiversion programming – John Knight and Nancy Leveson](http://sunnyday.mit.edu/papers/nver-tse.pdf)
08. [Arguments and Results – James Noble](http://www.laputan.org/pub/patterns/noble/noble.pdf)
09. [A Laboratory For Teaching Object-Oriented Thinking – Kent Beck, Ward Cunningham](http://c2.com/doc/oopsla89/paper.html)
10. [Programming as an Experience: the inspiration for Self – David Ungar, Randall B. Smith](https://suif.stanford.edu/~lam/cs343/programming-as-experien...)