cross-posted from: https://ani.social/post/5909087
On Monday, one of our students at $DAYJOB asked me what projects I do in my freetime. After I infodumped on her for half an hour, she asked in disbelief “And you do these in your freetime, without being paid?”.
Like, mate, did you not listen how feckin’ excited I got just then? Of course, I do these in my freetime.
To be fair, though, the last project I told her about is very dry. It’s a library to help automate CI builds. And the thing I’m thrilled to build is a compile-safe API for accessing the packages in your workspaces. Like, yeah, it does take a special kind of nerd to get excited about that…
I think the trill comes from the feeling that “I can do it better” if it is already done before or “I finally understand this in enough detail to build a nice abstraction” if not