Imagine investing countless hours into a framework/programming language/technology to be great at it only for it to die on you or be abandoned by the creators. This was my experience with Gatsby.js, a React framework for static-site generation (SSG) that I had been using since 2020.

The tech industry always has something new to offer and if one is not careful (like I was), they can fall into the trap of unending learning without mastering anything.

I have been wanting to get good at chess and it seems this is the year that will happen.

Remember the time we used Facebook and Twitter by going to their dedicated "mobile" web versions? Don't get me wrong, they are MUCH better than they were in 2014 thanks to a lot web technologies that have emerged along the way. But this is about why mobile development is just better.

This is a story of how video games led me to the path of writing code, made me make the right choices, and showed me the greatness and beauty of programming.