Hard to answer. I went through a phase while working for others where I just wasn't coding at home anymore. I did the time at work, but my main interests were e

Hard to answer. I went through a phase while working for others where I just wasn't coding at home anymore. I did the time at work, but my main interests were elsewhere. A few things that worked for me: - Changing to a developer-focused company, where developers aspired to be craftsmen. - Creating my own app. I can pour my heart into one part of it, no deadlines unless I want them and I learn a million things outside of the code. - Going to b-school. Lots of ideas/new people, new domains. - Contracting instead of being full-time. I like the time balance more. Whatever it was, I rediscovered why I like developing.