[lastangryman]

Wonderful story and very inspiring. Is programming the only field where you have this strange mix of people coding "as a job" with literally no interest beyond that, and projects like this? It's hard to explain stuff like this to people. Some will "get" this video, many won't, which is a shame.

EDIT: I strongly recommend to click through to the actual video and not just the article: https://youtu.be/l5MoOh4LkSs

[criddell]

I think there are lots of fields like this. My dad worked his entire life as an auto mechanic and one of his few hobbies was working on and driving a project car he owned for 50 years.

[Waterluvian]

Right! And to their point: I know people who work in auto factories and mechanic shops and haaaaaate it as a hobby.

[egypturnash]

Art is like this. I trained to be an animator but left when it became apparent how much of working at a studio was just A Job.

Really, thinking about my various friends with some kind of creative life, this is every single field where sometimes your core skills are something you picked up because you actively liked fooling around with them, and managed to find a way to make a living with, and sometimes are something you picked up because it's what your guidance counselors pushed you into because it was a field with a lot of growth potential that was vaguely aligned with what you actually enjoyed doing.

[yodsanklai]

I think it happens in many other fields as others have mentioned.

Perhaps what is peculiar in this story is how obsolete a C64 is by today's standards. There aren't many fields which changed so much in the course of a few decades.