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> I started building an app on 01.01.2018. It was New Year's Eve and we just had the crappiest night ever. Yes, imagine a night so bad that at midnight you decide "you know what, fuck it, I'm gonna work on WEB DEVELOPMENT". That bad.

Am I the only one that actually enjoys development ? I do development for fun in my free time, often with things that are completely throw away.



There are multiple types of development

I LOVE tinkering with silly bots or automations I’ve come up with to solve a problem I’m having for sure! I’d happily chuck away a weekend even if it’s just preliminary work that ends up scrapped. This is fun!

I don’t love everything dev I do for pay, that often comes more under the “well, the bills do need paying..” category

Not because it’s bad or unethical or whatever, don’t get me wrong, it’s just going to be basically the same tasks I did for the last site. Not as fun.


I enjoy coding when I have a problem code can solve. (Sometimes I enjoy it a little too much, and before I know it I've skipped dinner.) I don't think I'd code just for the sake of it, though.




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