This is a really great walk through what feels like decades but really was just a few years of change. The final message is great though - stuff we've done has a rolling impact on the way things turn out. I've, by complete chance, bumped into folks online who played old, old games I put out years ago and said that a song I put in the game turned them on to an entire genre of music. Or, I've had someone message me and tell me that a post somewhere on a now-dead website helped them work through a bug in their code and now they're in their programming career.

I've definitely had shell shock recently, even with just managing my personal service usage. Where should I keep my music, my photos, my codebases, etc. Things either break, hit end of life, or change in ways I'm not comfortable with. And self hosting is cool and all but I can't do all of it.

Either way, keep building stuff! We'll find the right way eventually.