[Matachines]

Programming is boring after five years of CRUD/"business"/"enterprise" apps. Unfortunately they make up the majority of the jobs out there but making the effort to get a more interesting job is worth it.

[blowski]

I love building CRUD apps! I guess I'm fascinated by learning different business models and mapping them to code.

[nxrabl]

I'd love to hear more about your workflow! It sounds like you've been able to take a thing people consider tedious, and find joy in it.

[blowski]

It's nothing special - I'm just genuinely interested in learning about other people's problems. Every organisation has some pain points that can be solved with a CRUD app, and I love discovering them.

I know my tools very well, keep up to date with trends, and I'm constantly grateful at how lucky I've been. I'm a very mediocre developer, but I'm fantastically well paid for a job that really isn't very difficult.

FWIW - I use Symfony (especially the form bundle), Behat, and nginx. At some point, I want to start building Angular front ends as well. I try to be Agile by delivering early and often.

[Raphmedia]

Everything is boring in a repetitive job. Ask the baker if putting the same kind of bread in the oven every morning is any fun.

That's why you do personal project.

For the baker it could be baking a complicated recipe.

For the programmer it's learning something new and solving new problems... well, for the programmer it's also baking a complicated recipe.