> This just rekindled my dying spirit of hacking. I've observed over the years it's pretty weird the sorts of things that can effect such "rekindling"! We shou

> This just rekindled my dying spirit of hacking. I've observed over the years it's pretty weird the sorts of things that can effect such "rekindling"! We should collect them all in a thread. For me, at various points it was: - Golang - Haskell - Sublime Text, coming from VS (as I said.. weird! =) - Replaying old-school games! - Learning GLSL, hacking together shadertoy.com-like ray(sphere)traced experiences (though locally) - Linux especially all the funny little programs in whatever "AppStore-ish sort-of-clone" each distro has (all the little maths/graphics/dev/tweak tools, educational games etc) - most amusingly, 4chan /g/ --- the infantile flair takes me back in spirit to my earliest coding days (aka I was a teen coding and joking and smoking with likeminded buddies all day & night after or during school etc) Wonder what'll be next =) I guess most devs will do well to occasionally seek out a fresh rekindling, whenever they spent just too much time merely integrating their stuff with the various loose ends of "the whole (rest of the) real world" (formats, conversions, inane feature requrests, OS interop, compatibility adjustments across stack, lib interop, other APIs, threading, misc IO) .. all the uninteresting-yet-error-prone-and-finicky stuff that modern development is saddled with (as opposed to old-school "whip up TurboPascal/QuickBasic, write the LoB app based on CSV, compile, go home" workflows)