Yeah, I used to get a kick out of building a perfect, performant, keyboard-accessible, a11y compliant and well-designed dropdown menu. Building my own rendering libraries. Making things run at 60fps. Optimizing server code, HTTP performance. Watch a full fleet of servers running my code in action. It was great.
Now I get the same feeling out of building an entire component library in an afternoon, running my code in a Nintendo Wii with twenty minutes of effort, hacking a LED display that I bought for €5, writing a tool to update my keyboard that only supported Windows, or building projects that would take a team of twenty engineers in the past.
We just got a power upgrade, the magic is still there.
Now I get the same feeling out of building an entire component library in an afternoon, running my code in a Nintendo Wii with twenty minutes of effort, hacking a LED display that I bought for €5, writing a tool to update my keyboard that only supported Windows, or building projects that would take a team of twenty engineers in the past.
We just got a power upgrade, the magic is still there.