I miss

I miss.

I miss wasting time on new technologies. Putting hours and effort into old and new things. Things I will probably never use again. Things people put thought into. Things I put thought into. Things no one has thought of yet?

I look at old CTF challenges. At old tools. Own products. Little scripts. Tutorials, howtos and notes. I see fun times. Effort. Sweat. Ideas. Legacy Know-how?

I miss trial and error. Fighting every inch of progress on a problem. Struggling to find an edge. Finally solving something. I miss the pride of finally overcoming it.

I miss fighting a programming language. The command line. My system and remote systems. Having no easy answer, or sometimes no answer at all.

Everything is so fast-progressing. No time to stop. Moving at lightning speed. Every day feels like weeks needed before.

I miss slowness and deliberation. Writing code by hand. Constructing and solving a problem. Char by char, line by line, file by file.

I miss, but there is a need to adapt. To change. Refine. Restructure. Move on.