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Hi again. Where did the time go?

Long story short I posted here in like 2019 once and I got thousands of views on that post.

Still tickles me pink to this day.

That post was all about being a web developer and how crazy it is, furthermore, to be a full stack dev of any sort. From how I understand it the industry has only continued to grow in that direction. Cue thoughts, rants and controversy about Web3, and what it likely means for developers who make things for browsers and mobile devices.

But since that post I have left that corner of the tech industry behind and I'm pretty okay with that.

At this point I'm actually a senior systems administrator in a department of about two dozen people. I have little or nothing to do with web development anymore beyond talking with internal software and and devops folks on how their new in-house deliverables will integrate with our standing systems.

Nowadays when I'm programming at work it's usually some .NET-heavy PowerShell and maybe some C# if I actually need a fully compiled application, and not just a PSSession full of .NET assembly calls and NuGet modules.

At home I'm messing around with Rust for fun and building a Discord bot with a friend. I'm slowly unlearning my hatred for finicky systems-level programming instilled by learning C++ as a first language.

Frankly I'm posting here again because Twitter's a cesspool and Fediverse often feels like I'm standing between groups of people with signs and bullhorns; probably arguing about something Big Tech said or did. I'm not about that vibe.

So uh, hi? Again?


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