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		girvo 45 days ago \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Web development is fun again See, I do though. I enjoy the act, the craft of programming. It's intrinsically fun for me, and has been for the 25 years I've been doing it at this point, and it still hasn't stopped being fun! Different strokes I guess

phil21 45 days ago [–]

Oh I totally agree! I have a lot of fun chatting with friends/coworkers who are super into programming as an art and/or passion.

I just was pushing back on the “you aren’t into computers if you don’t get intrinsic joy out of programming itself” bit.

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