Well, I just spent a good chunk of this week writing code, which I haven’t done this consistently for some time.  Two hours on Monday, four hours on Tuesday and Wednesday, and an hour today.  Not a marathon, but not too shabby for a code re-nube.

First of all, it’s a big kick.  I forgot how much I enjoyed coding and I’m glad to decided to spend some time on it in December.  I especially enjoy debugging, for the same reason you love hitting yourself on the head with a hammer: it feels so good when you stop!  Wanting to a solve a software bug is a deep itch that nags at you and nags at you, and, when you solve it, it feels terrific.

Actually working at writing code, moreover, is teaching me a lot about the Go language that I didn’t grok from just reading the book.  It forces you to make your ideas execute.

Not much more to say about it than that.