With that kind of commute (assuming it's 1.5 hrs each way), OP is probably in the Vacaville/Fairfield/Davis/Sacramento area, where there are not actually a ton of great tech jobs. Some to be sure, but it's pretty different from SF.
This is so cynical, yeah plenty of people have jobs that look like this, but if you look hard enough, there are tons of corners of the internet where people (communities!) are doing weird and fun things with code.