Thank you for reading and sharing your interesting story and your experiences! I am also struggling with what you describe, and this is why I wanted to play aro

Thank you for reading and sharing your interesting story and your experiences! I am also struggling with what you describe, and this is why I wanted to play around with the notion of hack and hacker. The word in itself is no holy cow to me. I want to get better at just 'messing around'. And in this very limited sense, I do think kids should inspire us, and that a connection to hack-ish things exists. It's about a mentality, not only skills and knowledge. I lack your vast experience (I am a quite old junior front-end developer), so you can imagine what I feel when showing what I've done. Why should one be embarrassed? If you worked professionally for years on some application and had lots of experience and the app sucked, perhaps it would be motivated (or more reasonable to think, the team or management had issues) - but otherwise? I love this sentence: 'a quick job that produces what is needed, but not well.' I read it is a description of a mentality, a quite amateur-sh DIY spirit. Or at least it was fun to play around with the meaning in that way.