This is a pretty childish unprofessional approach to look for some _inspiration_. As if a job has the responsibility to make you happy and fix your personal issues.
If an opportunity in modern economy to make a decent money is not enough an inspiration for you - no magic new shiny thing will inspire you for long.
That said, posts like this are common on HN. People burning out and get disillusioned with their jobs. Or loose meaning in tech.
Could this be because 15-20 years ago in order to get in to the industry you had to have a certain passion and curiosity in order to get through the forest of very technical tools and programming languages in order to run anything. Industry was not mature and there was a lot of hype around it's wins, it was literally changing the world. Software was eating the world quickly. Books like "Passionate programmer" and "Secrets of the Rock Star Programmers" were promising us the land of endless rewards if we pour our whole selves in to the job and forget about anything else.
But nowadays, 20 years of growth, billions of LOC and millions of people came in to the industry. Now we've got the understanding that it was just a job after all. And instead of pouring your self in to it, the sustainable way is to treat it like a job and also have a life outside of it. Hedge your bets if you will, because life is more than tech
In 2010, you could choose a tech stack - .Net or Java and learn it well enough to get a full stack implementation done along with JavaScript and choose an RDMS. Not too much different than today. Today it’s worse with the clusterfuck of the front end ecosystem.
The iOS SDK was already mature and the Android SDK was getting mature
2005 was about the same. But then if you wanted to build a mobile app you either used whatever Java was doing or the Windows Compact Framework.
Even back in 2000 it wasn’t that bad.
I haven’t had “passion” for computer science since entering college and I was a hobbyist before then
Did you even read the post?
Sorry if didn’t make it clear.