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I hope I don't need to wait until retirement to have enough energy to code for fun again. It's still quite far off. I still do some coding for fun, but I can't

I hope I don't need to wait until retirement to have enough energy to code for fun again. It's still quite far off. I still do some coding for fun, but I can't spend more than a weekend on a project without feeling like my time and effort could go towards work instead, especially since I get to do my own projects at work too. But they're not exactly voxel engines or roguelikes.

JKCalhoun 4y ago
In my free time I guess I found other things more appealing than coding when I was still employed as a coder. I did a lot of woodworking, some electronics, some art. I dabbled occasionally in code – learned Javascript because I wanted to write a web-solitaire game. But it was pretty infrequent. I wish I had more mental energy to code in off-hours because I learned a lot being exposed to Javascript, have learned even more after retirement by learning Python.... My job had consisted of Objective-C and Swift almost exclusively (picked up some SQL as well, parsed a lot of file formats and learned those). So it was refreshing to learn other languages have some cool libraries, interesting ways of doing things. I see now where a lot of Swift borrowed from.