I concur with making things, I get as much joy from learning new crafts now as I ever did from programming. I still very much enjoy programming, too - probably

I concur with making things, I get as much joy from learning new crafts now as I ever did from programming. I still very much enjoy programming, too - probably more than ever. I attribute that to going deeper. When I was doing CAD I went all over the technology map from UI to middleware to memory, file systems, graphics and hardware (GPUs before they had the name). When doing “web” HTML was an entry point that lead to going deep into HTTP, web server scaling, DNS and so on. Delving into hardware design, lightly into embedded programming, and even chip level design. And into physical networking and IP, and many of the low-level application protocols like RADIUS, Netflow, SNMP, syslog and all. It’s a big, big world. Edit: typos.