That's pretty much how I feel as well. In my 30s now, but unemployed and working a bit day to day on a project while sending out the odd job application in an abysmal market (in the same city as the author), but it's a gradual process and only after enjoying the sunny days as much as possible, socializing, fitness etc..
It's not that there's no time for coding in a hobbyist manner, but I'm careful about moderating the amount of time I allocate to it.
That said, I wasn't at even remotely the same level of execution ability as the author, and are probably still not, but I was starting to work with freelance clients in PHP and Angular.js, building some small technical experiments end to end, and relentlessly trying to get better at technical stuff. I could definitely still do that, just not at the expense of other things.
