I have many hobbies from cars thru music, electronics and various computer-related stuff and I can say with certainty:
There will be always tedious parts, and there will be always unfun parts in anything worth doing. And it will always feel a bit like work.
About the only hobbies without that is passive ones like watching/reading and partially video games.
I did notice that I change what hobbies I engage depending on what I do in work (I work in ops where maybe 30-40% is coding, but I can go weeks coding, or not touching much actual programming at all), if I get some hard stuff to do in work I usualyl engage with other hobbies than programming and vice versa, when I've been stuck in meetings, planning and deploying at work I engage in programming more.
Keeping on one "stack" of libraries can help. I also have a template for new apps so I'm not held in minutia of writing logging again for the next app.
There will be always tedious parts, and there will be always unfun parts in anything worth doing. And it will always feel a bit like work.
About the only hobbies without that is passive ones like watching/reading and partially video games.
I did notice that I change what hobbies I engage depending on what I do in work (I work in ops where maybe 30-40% is coding, but I can go weeks coding, or not touching much actual programming at all), if I get some hard stuff to do in work I usualyl engage with other hobbies than programming and vice versa, when I've been stuck in meetings, planning and deploying at work I engage in programming more.
Keeping on one "stack" of libraries can help. I also have a template for new apps so I'm not held in minutia of writing logging again for the next app.