Anecdotally, the low time to prototype has had me throwing usable tool projects up on my local network. I wrote a meal planner and review tool for our weekly vegetable share, and local board game / book library that guests can connect to and reference.

It scratches the itch to build and ship with the benefit of a growing library of low scope, high performance, highly customized web tools I can write over a few hours in an evening instead of devoting weekends to it. It feels like switching from hand to power tools

Not OP, but found this very helpful in my current situation. Thank you for sharing.

Hey there! I applied for the Back End role a couple weeks back, but haven't heard anything beyond application acceptance. I'm also in VT! Would love to connect to someone else in the VT tech scene if nothing else. Let me know!

There are dozens of us!

I believe the 120k number was in reference to the OP’s Aurora spend.

Is this tongue in cheek? I appreciate and try to emulate this trait, but worry it comes off as politic-ing.

What I got out of it was "determination eventually beats natural skill over time".

A little, but it also wouldn't surprise me at all.

This trait is what I associate with people who quickly develop deep knowledge and impressive breadth.

This resonates with me. I’ve so far chalked it up to envy of their “unearned” confidence that’s rooted in my own self-esteem issues. Recognizing a fellow imposter in the wild.

This has been my experience with citalopram as well. The negative side effect though is that natural highs are lower, so I view it very much as a mood stabilizer.

There are dozens of us!

Same here!