[kylehotchkiss]

I started in 7th grade (13 years old?) and I'm 26 now myself. I enjoy coding much more than I used to. Just being able to push things out on a regular basis without getting totally stuck on things makes it all the more enjoyable.

Solving complicated issues at work is satisfying but I still find the most pleasure in my own projects solving little life issues using the tech stack I'm most comfortable with (older, less trendy platforms like Heroku/ExpressJS/Postgres). I love the feeling of an elegantly solved problem that works in a reliable and efficient way. When I invent the projects I am working on, I feel the most control to getting to that point since I can somewhat anticipate my own future feature requests.

What I have been missing lately is having my own home server and tweaking with the server configs and having more control over how my own projects are hosted. S3/Cloudfront are incredible but I miss having an apache server at home doing it for me. One consequence of the laptop age, I guess.