Every once in a while, I write a post talking about how I’m going to (more or less) walk away from coding. But nonetheless, the coding projects continue, and this blog endures. This speaks to the compelling power of writing code, even when work and/or life pulls in other directions. Programming, as many people will attest, is enchanting.

Partly this perennial interest on my part is also due to the positive reinforcement loops that can occur between programming and academic work, which I’ve talked about elsewhere. And code is a very versatile tool that can tackle many kinds of tasks in libraries, giving it an evergreen utility.

I started with Python v3.3, which was a long time ago now, and over the years I’ve run through a wide range of emotions and dispositions toward coding. Longtime readers of this blog will perhaps see a pattern, or maybe some cycles. This post is perhaps best read as another marker on that (iterative?) journey.

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