Weekly #34: The Joy of Making Things

This issue covers my reflections from March 2026. When I first learned to program more than a decade ago, I'd often code until two or three in the morning without noticing the time, watching what was in my head slowly take shape under my fingertips. In Monthly (Issue 24): Ten Years of Programming , I wrote: "Those late nights, full of excitement as I built that game — even now, looking back, that feeling hasn't dimmed at all. I think that must have been the purest form of love." After years in the industry,