I mostly find programming fun, I’ve been doing it most of my life, but I will admit that engineering can be pretty agonizing. I enjoy the stuff, I enjoy the algorithmic stuff, and I enjoy implementing the math and algorithms, but that’s only about half of any programming job I have had.

I derive zero enjoyment from Kubernetes configs, or Terraform, or fucking around with log settings, or screwing around with all the knobs for Kafka. That stuff is agonizing.

Never?

Never some intractable bug, that didn't seem to have any relation to the source code you're reading?

Yeah same. I've been doing this for fun since I was like 9 years old. 30 years later it's still fun.

To me frustration and excitement are related.

I've never punched the air after fixing some bug that I didn't at some point earlier get extremely frustrated at its intractability.

You must not talk to other developers ;)

But seriously, sometimes its not the code, it's the human factor that's painful, other times, well it's JavaScript.

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