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This was a breath of fresh air. I've been on a very similar burnout/recovery path in the last year. Building useful personal software let me enjoy my work again

This was a breath of fresh air. I've been on a very similar burnout/recovery path in the last year. Building useful personal software let me enjoy my work again. The other main benefit for me is also being able to play and use any "unconventional" tech I care for. Building new-fangled single-binary PHP executables, using sqlite in prod, deploying WITHOUT Docker: these make it enjoyable for me. What I've noticed is that this also has a knock-on effect on the main work for me - personal use repos often have new techniques & optimisations I can add in.

mxuribe 3y ago
Some parts sounded like you were talking about me! :-) Its funny, how many technologists play with stuff on the side, derive learnings from these experiences and end up bring something helpful, even valuable to their professional jobs...but employers sometimes - at least in some of my cases - disparages such efforts, or often block such enthusiasm. Then again, maybe i'm just working for the wrong kinds of orgs. ;-) I'm glad that you have been able to reap the benefits of the knock-on effect; kudos to you!