I'm a little young to have any nostalgia for anything, but nonetheless, I've got it. Awhile back, I used to write programs that created AFP (IBM printer code) and PDF (I assume you know what that is). These programs sometimes even had interfaces which allowed one to add text boxes and such to a document, and so on and so forth and such like.
Though I never finished any of these programs, looking back at them I can't help but wonder at how advanced I was. This is not easy stuff: I was aligning each character of each word while using font kerning and text formatting, and then aligning each word into lines (left, right, center, and justify) and then, sometimes even applied 3D transformation to vectorized versions of the text.
That is extremely advanced stuff. And now I'm coding websites. And that doesn't sound as advanced. And it doesn't feel as advanced. And, therefore, it doesn't feel as rewarding. I want to make a powerful program again... I haven't done so in over a year, and I'm just drooling for the opportunity... yet no opportunities come.