Right on, I appreciate the clarification. Ah, honestly, I envy that time you had before the internet/javascript/SPAs/etc became so ubiquitous. I bet it was loa

Right on, I appreciate the clarification. Ah, honestly, I envy that time you had before the internet/javascript/SPAs/etc became so ubiquitous. I bet it was loads of fun figuring it all out and hacking your way to a solution? You're right, programming really is a drag. I know it's different, but just like with athletes and training versus playing, writers toiling away on manuscripts and outlines, and someone like my father, a construction worker, who labored on bits and pieces of a project before ever realizing the satisfaction of a completed project; you have to endure the suck and find satisfaction in it. SMALL VICTORIES. Your story reminds me of the passages on Bill Gates in Malcolm Gladwell's The Outliers that talked about Gates teaching himself programming and spending time in the school's library to use the one computer, eventually consulting at an extremely young age.