Nathan Youngman

When I wrote Why Go?

A year ago I took a career break after 28 years of web development.

As part of my long-term goal of becoming a solo game dev, I decided to learn how to write music.

To provide some context, I have a long-term goal of becoming a solo game dev, but I’m new to animation.

Art is an interest that I’ve long held but never truly pursued.

It all began with a potluck.

Two months ago I took a career break with many ambitious plans.

I’ve been exploring graphics programming once again, with Claude Sonnet 4 doing the heavy-lifting.

For the past 5½ years, I’ve been saving aggressively towards retirement, but I recently decided to take a career break.

For the past 5½ years, I’ve been saving towards retirement, but I recently decided to take a career break.

Hop in Your DeLorean and rewind the clock to the summer of 1997.

Four Thousand Weeks is a book written by Oliver Burkeman on the topic of time management.

Hi, I’m Nathan 👋 A self-taught developer from Canada 🇨🇦 and author ✍️ of Get Programming with Go (Manning Publications, 2018).

Go has types and values rather than classes and objects.

Object-oriented programming is like a comfortable old hat.

Getting into the swing of it.