Ask HN: I feel my career is at a dead end. Any advice on what could I do?
This is my experience, and your mileage may vary:<p>Multiple times in my coding career I have felt stalled and/or like I was regressing.<p>Early on, I worked on a programming language, gosu (<a href="https://gosu-lang.github.io/" rel="nofollow">https://gosu-lang.github.io/</a>) which ended up not really going anywhere.  Once the work on it was done, I returned to more mundane web programming for a while (over half a decade.)<p>A long while after that, and  unexpectedly, I turned a jQuery function I was noodling on into intercooler.js (<a href="https://intercoolerjs.org/" rel="nofollow">https://intercoolerjs.org/</a>).  After a year of that I returned to mundane web programming for quite a while (over half a decade.)<p>Unexpectedly, a year ago, the country shut down.  I was at home and decided to see if I could remove the jQuery dependency in intercooler.js, and so created htmx (<a href="https://htmx.org/" rel="nofollow">https://htmx.org/</a>).<p>When creating htmx and removing some attribute/functionality that was in intercooler.js, I realized that a small programming language would be the ideal replacement, so I created hyperscript (<a href="https://hyperscript.org/" rel="nofollow">https://hyperscript.org/</a>)  I had not expected to work on a programming language again, but now I am.<p>So my career has been some very exciting technical projects punctuating long stretches of pretty basic, boring web development, where the most exciting thing is me wondering if I can figure out what the deuce is wrong with my CSS.<p>My takeaway, at least in my career, is that patience is a virtue, and the interesting stuff tends to come up at irregular intervals and in unexpected moments and ways.