Recently I have been finding myself becoming increasingly excited about developing software. I was noodling on the root cause of this a bit and I am not sure that I can identify that. But it makes me quite happy nonetheless, so I am not going to miss out on the forest for the trees.
I usually have one or two outside-of-work software-related projects that keep me busy. Most of these are small one-offs that are worked on for “technical vitality” – you know, acquiring enough practical development experience in a technology so that you can at least put it on the resume and answer the resulting interview questions about a technology without looking like a fool.