I genuinely get so much enjoyment over tinkering around with my tools, apps, shell, you name it. When everything is tweaked to look nice to me, work nicely, scripts automating things and when everything just clicks.. it's amazing.

I used to re-arrange my bedroom every few months when I was a kid, I feel like I do the equivalent with my dev machine. Look at tweaking themes, switching out plugins/tools, updating things, change things around a little bit and I always love it afterwards.

I also play Animal Crossing and I find it an interesting comparison. I'm playing with my GF and we made a plan of how we want the island to look and the timeline is 3-4 weeks with everything (because of how artificially they slow down a lot of things). Each individual thing sounds tedious and boring (dig up that whole hill, place all the paths, etc. etc.) but it feels good in the end for some reason. It turns into what we imagined, what we wanted it to look like and work, the same way I guess my dev setup right now.

I've spent so much time just tinkering and it gives me great joy!