A personal blog about technology, coffee, and side projects.
There is a quiet satisfaction in building something end-to-end, by yourself, over the course of a few weekends. No sprint planning, no tickets, no standups — just you, an editor, and a vague idea that slowly becomes real.
I have been working on a small side project that I will write more about soon. The interesting part has not been the code itself but the decisions around scope: what to leave out, what to defer, what to never build at all.
A good cup of coffee is mostly about consistency. Once you can reliably reproduce something you enjoy, the morning becomes a little more predictable — which, for a programmer, is a rare comfort.
Here are the three preparations I keep coming back to: a flat white, a v60 pour-over, and a stubbornly simple moka pot.
Despite having a dozen note-taking apps installed, I still reach for a paper notebook first. The friction is the feature: writing by hand is slow enough that you only write down what actually matters.