side project

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As a side project, engineer Boris Cherny built a prototype to control Spotify with Anthropic’s AI Claude.

From The Wall Street Journal • Mar. 29, 2026

When everything is bite-sized and cohesive, vegetables stop feeling like a side project and start feeling like the main event.

From Salon • Feb. 18, 2026

At $110 billion, Waymo is a nice side project.

From Barron's • Feb. 1, 2026

One day in September 2024, Cherny began tinkering on a coding tool as a side project.

From The Wall Street Journal • Jan. 23, 2026

From the other side project stout bamboo poles, to the outer ends of which is fastened a boat-shaped log of wood.

From Harper's Young People, August 24, 1880 An Illustrated Weekly by Various