~/diy for my collection of knitting, crochet and sewing patterns and other assorted diy stuff
~/work duh.
~/tools for my collection of more or less useful small scripts
~/sync for my syncthing folders
~/data symlink to my data partition (most of the others are also symlinks to their location on data)
I don't really have a convention for programming projects yet. They used to land inside of ~/diy or in ~/tools or just random folders on data. I've got a ~/code folder now, but its contents are a mess.
The last time I got really fucking sick and had to stay off work for two weeks I played a lot of "Sticky Business".
You design and sell stickers. Its cute, chill, wholesome, scratches my creative itch, and is just distracting enough for all the being-sick stuff going on, but not so complicated as to trigger a headache.