I'm a parent of two small daughters. Now I'm still able to program once or twice a week for maybe 30 minutes.
But I definitely don't have time to do one commit a day :(.
Back in college or highschool, I used to pull a full weekend worth of programming, meaning starting saturday at 8am, finishing sunday at 10pm. I was able to build very cool projects in just a weekend. Now if I estimate maybe the 1 hour I have per week, the same project just takes me months...
I still do cool projects, VR video games, cool websites. It's just taking a lot of time.
This project for example took me 4 years (lol): http://traveler208.com/
But you know what, looking back at what I have of my life, I cherish much more the time I spent with the family at the lake, or the time I spent with my wife. The time where I programmed a platform that used only free servers all over the internet to combine a 7TB bandwidth in a month for a P2P service was cool, but it's not as good.
But I definitely don't have time to do one commit a day :(.
Back in college or highschool, I used to pull a full weekend worth of programming, meaning starting saturday at 8am, finishing sunday at 10pm. I was able to build very cool projects in just a weekend. Now if I estimate maybe the 1 hour I have per week, the same project just takes me months...
I still do cool projects, VR video games, cool websites. It's just taking a lot of time. This project for example took me 4 years (lol): http://traveler208.com/
But you know what, looking back at what I have of my life, I cherish much more the time I spent with the family at the lake, or the time I spent with my wife. The time where I programmed a platform that used only free servers all over the internet to combine a 7TB bandwidth in a month for a P2P service was cool, but it's not as good.