I try to build useful things for people.
Having written software in a variety of programming languages over nearly 30 years, I feel as though I've figured out where I like to apply different languages. Whenever I build something that involves front-end dev, for instance, I'll make sure I use TypeScript as far as
hacks
Something I've picked up on in my time building things (software, electronics, woodwork, etc.), is that we tend to, as far as possible, leverage the components and tools we do have (quite often non-ideal) to make useful and/or interesting things. We "hack" a few things