This year for Thanksgiving, I did something I don’t normally do: I took some time away from the computer. Since both my work and hobby involve programming, it is rare that a day passes for me in which I don’t do at least a little bit of coding. If I had to guess, I’d say that for the better part of the last 5 years I’ve gone at most a dozen days without programming overall. Since I’ve been putting in a lot of effort lately working on my various projects, I decided that this year I...