I keep many hobby projects going most of the time, but I try not to judge people who don’t. A lot of people have kids and want to focus their non-work time on their family, and I don’t want to tell people they’re wrong for doing that. There’s nothing wrong with a job being a job and not your life.

I don’t have kids (and can’t now thanks to a snip), so it’s relatively easy for me to find time to hack on something for fun, but it’s not wrong for a parent to want to, you know, be a parent.