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I kinda share the feeling. Well I still like tinkering with some things that nobody else seems to care about. But most of the time it feels like doing stuff with computers is just fighting the new technology (which I don't care for) and then there's politics, copyright & contracts, things that further try to ruin it for me.

For most part I can't get excited about any of the news about software, programming languages, new services or big tech corps. I look at the front page of HN, yawn and move on. I don't care what Apple is doing, I don't care what Google is doing, I don't care about your new javascript framework or microservice, not about your new OS, I don't care about a new smartphone or laptop...

The few things I find interesting are things I keep to myself because every time I've tried to make a discussion about them, nobody else seems to be interested. Or it may even be met with hostility.

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Please share what you find interesting. I'm curious to know.

Apparently, this is left as an exercise for the reader. Hint: use your imagination.

My imagination says lava cakes. That's what he finds interesting.

Now, I'm intensely curious.

What is it that you like?

making a great living by pushing buttons on the interwebs, most likely. many of us lose the childhood passion at some point but still can be good technologists. our interests shift over time, but discipline and the ability to get shit done means you are valuable to society, and especially to others in your field.

what i really am envious of are people who take their fading passion (for lack of a better of work) passion in pure technology and judo-flip it into massive career leverage in another industry they have new-found passion or interest in.

Would you care to share those things now? Here or email if you prefer

Gonna join in. I too would like to know those things!

I would like to know too.

I have some weird interests that I guarantee puts people to sleep (watch repair, horology), but I'm a weirdo.

I have a feeling your interests might interest a lot of us?

As to myself, I'm tired of computers, and the Internet--it all peaked, for myself, around 2008. I wont say why because everyone got so pious, for Very good reasons.

I do miss the plethora of information people were scanning, or uploading back then.

To me that just sounds like nostalgia...

I agree. I remember learning to program on my graphing calculator in the early 2000's. Nobody cared, unless i could make a game they could play. Flash forward to now, I enjoy making web apps. None of my friends care unless I can make an app they can use.

Nothing has really changed. Being a maker is still as uncommon/weird as it always was. It might seem like everybody likes tech today, but they liked tv and video games and phones too. I guess the more things change, the more they stay the same...

A little off topic but I also got my start on graphing calculators (Ti 83 plus)!

And your experience mirrored mine as far as external interest, outside of games and in my case, programs that "did the homework for you", no one really cared about the process of making them, it was all about if the end result was something they could use

Ti 83 plus here too :) Such a great platform to start on. Press right arrow to go to the edit tab, easy to see examples. And the instructions in the manual!!! Whoever put those there is responsible for my career, or at least my passion. Realizing that I didnt have to do math homework was addicting :)

"programs that "did the homework for you" " Lol, I was careful not to tell people about those. I knew they would peer pressure me, and eventually they would get caught using one on a test.

"And your experience mirrored mine as far as external interest"

I think this is common for any creative task. I love music, but I never really cared to learn the scales, or any instruments. Nor do I listen when others talk about them. Nobody wants to see how the sausage is made I guess :)

Sometimes things actually get worse though

Yes threat of hostility keeps me to myself too.

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