Since I learned to program in the Eighties I had always software development projects for my own silly purposes. That practice is definitely a great driver to learn new things with a concrete project to implement.
Personal Websites
In the mid Nineties I started to use the Mosaic and Netscape browser, and soon decided to write the software documentation in HTML. Since then I had four major versions of my personal websites, which I left intact and you can explore them on my history page.