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I fell out of love for programming after working at too many feature-shops where we'd churn out feature after feature (and in some cases blindly remove features), with nearly zero feedback from real users - just input from product managers with zero domain knowledge. reply Also, being way more selective with personal projects. Having too many of them can make other, unrelated projects at work miserable, by messing with your schedule. When I had my own note taking app, it would sometimes take an hour a day. That's more than enough to affect social life or make someone tired at work the next day. Especially with hardware related projects as those can also make a physical clutter problem. I enjoyed personal things a lot more once I started layering on all the best practices, same as I'd do for a work project. And work projects, I've started doing things like type hints for everything not just "stuff that seems big enough to need it", rather than the usual "Just enough" method that a lot o

Ask HN: What brought back the joy of programming for you? | Hacker News Hacker News new | past | comments | ask | show | jobs | submit login Ask HN: What brought back the joy of programming for you? 50 points by endorphine on June 25, 2024 | hide | past | favorite | 73 comments Question goes to those who fell in love with programming, then lost their love for it because of reasons, and then they rediscovered it. rozenmd on June 25, 2024 | next [–] Building products myself, with my own rules on how it'll be built, and how we get feedback from customers. I fell out of love for programming after

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