Sometimes it makes me feel very powerful, like I have the ability to forge my own tools, and create software that other people might use in ways I hadn’t even anticipated, maybe going on to create something new themselves.

Other times I feel like a very dull person, who has wasted most of his adult life making phosphor dots dance on a screen, just for the sake of it, when there is a whole world out there to be explored and appreciated. I get spooked at the thought of a Solar Flare or something rendering all computers useless… not because of the obvious havoc it would cause, but because everything I know would become useless. If I was stuck on a desert island, I would probably go mad attempting to fashion a computer out of coconuts.

And look, it’s past 3AM, so it’s clearly not the most sociable profession.