Ordered a 3.5inch floppy drive this morning. Stupidly excited but I've only got a couple of disks that I want to archive. Might have to find some more.
My rain barrel experiments continue. I managed to get a vinyl "portable" rain barrel to add alongside my 60 gallon traditional plastic barrel. I connected them using spare bits of hose between their drain taps. After a decent shower just now I have about 45 gallons in one and about 30 gallons in the other. I think a shorter hose joining them, or even a solid pipe would solve the pressure/fill balancing issues but it is already more water than I could capture before!
I'm at that weird stage in the life of a programmer where I have the skills to write some (probably) decent software but also don't have a single idea for a project that I would want to do. I don't know if this is from burnout due to 26 years of corpo programming or whether my ethos has shifted from creating technology to merely using it or integrating it into my daily life.
It's like now that I can develop a pretty solid program, I feel like I don't want to. Honestly, it kind of makes me feel like there's something wrong with me because it seems like all the other devs I know always be developin' because they enjoy it so much that they do it in their free time. And I find that the older I get, the less I enjoy the development portion of technology and more the usability thereof.
Any other #ElderDevs feel this way or am I alone in this? Is this a normal part of the software developer life, like some sort of inflection point?