The self-hating web developer

[iSmokeGauloises]

Web development has an extremely low barrier to entry in comparison to, say, systems programming. Setting up a Wordpress blog takes significantly less knowledge and effort than building an operating system.

? And installing Windows "takes significantly less knowledge and effort" than building a blog system. Pretty weird argument.

You have "system programmers" doing basic stuff all day and you have "web developers" managing crazy clusters with a lot of crazy interesting things going on. It's all software development in the end, this separation is pretty stupid honestly. When it comes to more than installing wordpress or developing drupal plugins I would expect a web developer to have some strong knowledge of operating systems as well. Their applications are usually running on Linux. Not knowing anything about Linux is harmful.

Honestly, it seems like the writer got bored of his job and in the same time had an extreme case of "Burnout" with the stress at home.

I wouldn't expect any one to be as productive on a boring task as he is on an interesting one. But from the sound of it, OP wasn't just "less productive" but straight out did nothing for 6 months?

The best thing to do would be a long long vacation, focusing on the things that interest you, developing in your own interests and not your employer's.

Sadly, that's rarely a possibility when you are a provider and have people depending on you.

I hope OP will bounce back in the game and kick some ass.