A friend of mine from Apple, a capable programmer who wrote one version of Apple's linker and also some books and libraries for Modula 2, left software development in the 90s and became a full-time painter and distiller, as well as a practitioner of Vajrayana Buddhism.
She passed away in the summer of 2021.
Her distillery, Delaware Phoenix, gained some positive reviews.
There's a memorial page about her here: