I quit working about 1.5 years ago. I think I still love computers while I simultaneously hate "the web". Don't get me wrong, to my amazement people have called me the best web developer they've ever met and I routinely get put on web like things at every company I go to - hardware, logistics, finance, I've been trying to run away from it but it keeps finding me and I think I hate it.

I've got this allergic reaction to bullshit and fetishize successful products and customer satisfaction. I think we've both changed; I'm different than I was 20 years ago and so is web development.

Tight applications with minimal tools that can be pivoted and changed swiftly which require competence and finesse to administer where you don't create developer debt, these are out of fashion.

All profitable hacker spaces professionalize as romantic magic becomes a liability.

I'm a middle aged divorced man, not divorced from a person, but from a profession and I've been trying to date around with new loves.