Being still a student and web developer in my free time (it's more as a hobby that keeps growing) I always find it very exciting when I'm trying to solve a prob

Being still a student and web developer in my free time (it's more as a hobby that keeps growing) I always find it very exciting when I'm trying to solve a problem I'm having, even if it just means learning something new because that new language/tools would make solving the problem easier. For instance, a while back I've been helping a friend to automate filling in a form, captcha and send a request on a site which required to do it daily. The way we did it eventually was using nodejs, phantomjs as a module (node-phantom), deathbycaptcha for solving the captcha and than running it daily using a crontab. This may be a very simple task to solve, but instead of solving it in languages we knew well (like php using curl requests), we used a new language and tried to use the most easy way to do it. Also I've been switching to managing my servers using ansible instead of shell scripts. I'll pickup cheff or puppet too some day. I guess what I'm really trying to say is, I haven't had any challenging or really difficult problems to solve yet. Thinking about whenever that 2h I would spend writing boilerplate code can be reduced or automated, or avoided by switching technologies/frameworks. Learning about new tools and their advantages and disadvantages. Like after a good year and half of using vim talking a look at emacs. That is what to me is difficult and challenging, yet very rewarding in the end. I know this is not exactly what the question was, my apologies for that.