What excites you about working in tech these days? 🧵

Somewhere in the first 10 years or so of professional software development, I reached my peak of enthusiasm about tech.

Sure, I was interest as a kid, but tech in 90s was difficult and niche.

Somewhere around 1999 it all start to come together, tech got easier more accessible (to me at least) and it became obvious that it was possible build interesting stuff that connected people.

I though myself into programming languages.

I'm not sure why now. I've always enjoyed building stuff for end users, but somehow the tools of building stuff caught my attention and spent my time learning and writing about them.

I don't regret learning about programming languages, I still appreciate their nuances, but they no longer interest me that much - just a means to an end.

Still I'd like to reignite my youthful enthusiasm, but I don't see anything on the tech landscape that excites me.

I guess it because it's a long time since I've seen something in tech thought, that's going to be really helpful to people.

And I used to in the early days, yes, even in something obscure as programming language feature.

@robertpi the current state of the industry means that a lot of energy and resources get poured in one particular field. Outside that* (you know.. the fancy parrot), I find #ebpf super interesting and worth exploring.
So far most of the interesting things built on top seem to be in the networking / CNI space (Cillium is fun if you are into the ecosystem) . And ofc observability, I've been trying to roll some things out for basic black box tracing (engineering resources being scarce). Maybe I am a bit late to the party, but I find this exciting and keep coming up with ideas and problems someone already solved

Other than that it's learning things which already exist. Some good ideas in the thread 👌