It was a natural progression for me, over the years I've gotten my fingers into a lot of pies across tech from running servers to REing to PCB design/Making and programming serves as a bit of glue to interconnect it all and then I fell in love with it.

But ONLY as a hobby, I know me and if I had to do it as a career day in and day out I'm not going to want to do it recreationally and the love and passion will eventually burn out. Although I do find areas to sprinkle it in in my career to make my job easier.