Pet projects are getting too big to pet

According to developer nnehdi, writing on Hacker News today, personal coding projects have a tendency to outgrow their origins. What starts as a simple weekend experiment often expands into something so complex and demanding that it stops being enjoyable and becomes instead a source of guilt and technical debt. It's a familiar pattern for engineers juggling multiple side projects.

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