Side projects... I hit ten years with my business and felt dragged down supporting boring issues and features I didn't feel like working on.

This year is different though. I've done a new project every month and amazingly the code seems to make its way back into the real product. This month I unintentionally worked on my main product for fun...but not features that customers have been asking for. Instead, the guilty pleasures like making the admin interface twice as fast. Long time customers were really excited to hear the change.