As a fulltime ops/deployment person, I haven't written any real software in over 4 years and long to go back to it.

Of course I'm solving real and challenging problems, but the skills that got me here in the first place are dying on the vine.

Also, on top of that, I'm "the cloud/networking/debugging guy" for about 150 engineers. It's annoying. I want to turn off Slack.

That goes without saying doesn’t it?