I’ve been building software for around 20 years. It’s more enjoyable to me than it has ever been. One of the reasons is I have my own playground repo + site where I put all my experiments and write whatever I want.

I can now make more in a day than I could have made in a year 15 years ago.

In the past few months, I have:

- built a serverless website/ code playground that enables me to host all my experiments and costs me essentially nothing - parsed the original zork code into typescript and then made a zork style game for my family - made about 5 educational mini games for my kids - learned how to do systematic math proofs with the lean language - created a serverless and database-free user data storage service on aws - created a serverless websocket service and a real time party game on aws.

This morning I started building a serverless mesh-like network on top of websockets and webrtc to further reduce infrastructure dependency.

Oh yeah, last year I was part of a corporate competition to build and program a self-driving RC car.

Now, of course, I do most of this on my own time by getting up at 4:30 so it doesn’t interfere with my family and my work - and at work I sometimes have to do boring tasks - but that’s life.

If you aren’t having fun, you simply are not playing with all the technology we have at our fingertips.