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As others have said, if it speaks to you, go for it.
Amarnath S wrote: which uses WPF, and MVVM
Personally, I would never, and will never, touch WPF.  WPF is, imho, one of those widow-makers of programming. 
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Don't you know WPF stands for: Woeful Pathetic Frivolity 
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Hm. Without a full-time daily job, working on something I enjoy from home would be an easy choice: do it!
As for not-latest-and-greates-tech, my personal (as in "grounds I work off when on my job") opinion is who cares. There's a lot of fads going on in the IT space. The new stuff may be new but that's about it, the new stuff may be even good, but who's to say the old stuff isn't or the new stuff is better than the old?
My next big GUI project will be made with Xamarin.Forms (to reach Windows & Android from the same code base, Xamarin.Forms could do iOS as well, but with Apple's paranoid restrictions, the use case can't be served under iOS which, by the way, isn't my job to tell customers), but there's no reason not to stick with "classical" WPF if it gets the job done.
Hell, I'm still doing a lot with Windows Forms. Something being old, stable & mature isn't a reason to switch away from it.
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why not?
take the job, especially if you like it.
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I am 64 and have done everything from embedded to CV and ML. I would not mind finding a part time WPF gig when I retire. If you have the time and the inclination, I would say go for it. You have nothing to lose.
Doug
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It looks like a good fit with the only caution I can think of is the support aspect and how it could suck you in somewhat against your will. Like, if you make the app, great, but then are you going to be supporting it? If you are, is that going to fit with your "retired life"?
This is an aspect where one can easily trick yourself into thinking "it won't be that much of an issue" but then find that oh, I can't go on a vacation or step away from things for a while to focus on something else, or if I do my vacation might be wrecked because of a support issue you feel you need to work on that rears its ugly head.
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TD;DR: yes
It sounds like it's something you'd kinda enjoy, and be paid for. People tend to live too long these days - extra cash is always welcome - and having a hobby that you're kinda into that also pays is great. If you don't need the money, it takes the pressure off too - if it stops being fun, quit.
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If you say that getting the money
is the most important thing
You will spend your life
completely wasting your time
You will be doing things
you don't like doing
In order to go on living
That is, to go on doing things
you don't like doing
Which is stupid.
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Do something you enjoy. Why worry about expanding your skill sets? (Assuming you retired because you are financially secure.) I retired in the summer of 2008 and thought I was financially secure until the Sep./Oct. crash that same year. So I spent the next 8 years teaching part-time at a local university as an adjunct. I really enjoyed it and it kept me from dipping into my IRA. Now, we're pretty well off since everything has recovered plus I've got the experience to use in my resume in case I need to get some income in the future.
BTW - not sure what you mean by "Active Service" but assuming that means the military, I think any defense contractor would be a possibility for a part-time, work-from-home software job. They are desperate for people with experience and domain knowledge.
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Ummm, are you bored being retired? Why not? I'm lost at your question.
The real issue - get paid what you think you are worth. You're retired for a reason.
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Playing all the endings now..
Why is Viktor such as a**hole with V when she is on death door? Seems uncharacteristically rude.. 
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I don't remember.
but AFAIK, everyone is a d*ck in this game.
CI/CD = Continuous Impediment/Continuous Despair
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true that! 
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Perhaps an app to turn a pig into a sandwich filler can find the errors? (7, 4)
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I like that 013... It will ensure that there is room for months with over a hundred days... 
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I had a lot of those when I was in school ... 
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Will you do it tomorrow as well if I am right, considering I am worse than useless at these?
Hamming code
Cheers,
Vikram.
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Care to explain the solution?
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I don't even know how to explain it all, something to do with errors and pigs, so my mind went to Hamming codes, which are error correcting codes.
Hamming code - Wikipedia
Quote: In computer science and telecommunication, Hamming codes are a family of linear error-correcting codes. Hamming codes can detect one-bit and two-bit errors, or correct one-bit errors without detection of uncorrected errors [...] Richard W. Hamming invented Hamming codes in 1950 as a way of automatically correcting errors introduced by punched card readers. In his original paper, Hamming elaborated his general idea, but specifically focused on the Hamming(7,4) code which adds three parity bits to four bits of data.
Cheers,
Vikram.
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Turn a pig into sandwich filler: mage it into ham: HAMMING.
And app to do that? HAMMING CODE.
OK, I'll do it tomorrow!
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Thank you 
All I got was Pigs -> Ham and when I saw Find errors, my mind went to error correcting codes, so there was the second part of the answer, Code, and the most famous (for me) error correcting code is the Hamming code. I know I am doing a poor job of explaining, but it just clicked in my mind, I spent maybe 5 seconds on it 
Cheers,
Vikram.
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The definition makes it easy enough, but how do you get hamming from ham? I don't see what clues for -ming.
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Well a "ham code" app doesn't make sense, so I verbified the noun! "Hamming" is a word (and a verb as in "hamming it up") so the gerund (I think - I was off to play with the fairies a lot during boring English classes) of "to ham a pig" would be "hamming a pig". Might be a present participle though.
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I recognize a lot from Garfield from real life cats.
Most cats have these character traits in varying degrees: they're lazy, they treat you like furniture or a scratching post, they're entitled little assholes, they think they're better than humans, they're ungrateful...
There's one thing all cats have in common though, whenever there's food they act like they're starving and this food will save their life.
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I'm not that much a cat person, but the cartoon reminded me very much my kids...
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