Thanks for this response. Completely agree that we need to build things that give us quick-wins. Writing a quick script that does something convenient illuminat

Thanks for this response. Completely agree that we need to build things that give us quick-wins. Writing a quick script that does something convenient illuminates the joy of programming like no other. My point was of a more general nature, for those of us who want to make a long-term career out of programming, and keep getting better at it. A lot of us (myself included) get stuck re-building simple stuff in a newfangled technology every few months and mistake that for progress. If we are to ever get to a place where we have the confidence to build larger and more complex things, we have to try making them, instead of being slaves to the latest project with the most Github stars. It won't be easy, but that is the point of deliberate practice - do something that is slightly beyond our reach and slowly push the bar.