Programming at work -- which once was my favourite thing in the world -- has really been losing its shimmer for me lately.

It's not just the AI stuff -- it's the containers and tests and the CI and transpiling. It's having way more responsibility and deliverables and expectations. It's the legacy of massive projects that were so fun and interesting to build that are now peoples' full time jobs to use.

But this morning I drew a little pink square on a screen using #uxntal and that gave me little butterflies like the first time I figured out I could negative index arrays in python 1000 years ago.