<p>I resonate with this article a lot. I started creating programs simply for the joy of making things, and maybe out of a bit of intellectual curiosity.</p><p>A lot of people around me ask "why make things people have done before," "what's the point," and "can you commercialize them?" Of course, it will be a good thing if I can make something useful to others, but that's not why I am doing it.</p><p><a href="https://www.jsbarretto.com/blog/software-is-joy/" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">jsbarretto.com/blog/software-i</span><span class="invisible">s-joy/</span></a></p>