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by PontifexMinimus 1330 days ago
> A sense of mastery and adventure permeated everything I did.

My experience too. I did embedded systeems that I wrote the whole software stack for: OS, networking, device drivers, application software, etc.

> Over the decades those feelings slowly faded, never to be recaptured. Now I understand nothing about anything.

These days programming is more trying to understand the badly-written documentation of the libraries you're using.