The Project I Didn't Abandon

My laptop has a ~/projects folder. Most of it is a graveyard. Not because the ideas were bad — I&rsquo;d still build some of them if I sat down today. They&rsquo;re dead because I get excited by a technical problem, work on it for two weekends, hit the part that stops being fun, and drift to the next thing. The codebase stays. The git log doesn&rsquo;t. I&rsquo;m 40, a Cloud Architect with ~18…