My progress curve looks like an upside down goat

It fills me with pride to think how much I've grown. This would have been demoralizing and heart breaking to me in the past. It has been this time too. But not enough to break me. I have the wisdom of experience, to know where the road to…

Leaving imperceptible footprints

You know how you know certain things and just as easily when you need it the most you are blind to it? That's been my last two weeks. Luckily my past self left some subtle reminders for me. I came across it, exactly when I needed it the…

I'm liking Swift | Language number four

Swift is actually quite intuitive and has a lot in common with Zig and Golang syntactically. Therefore been a lot easier to pick up than I imagined. Although I'm not a huge fan of the error handling, at least the bits I've seen so far. I&…

Remembering why I don't write React anymore

After a couple of years of not writing any React I decided to give React Native a shot. I used Cursor to create a prototype to see how viable this would be. It was all great, till I made the mistake of looking at the codebase. To be fair to…

Reconnaissance

Just an idea that I just had as I've been working through the temporary frustration from the perceived lack of progress. I've decided to switch perspectives a little bit. Instead of expecting the frustrations to go away, I'm going to go on the offensive.…

A black sheep

I've been practicing being present, quite more than usual. As it's been a tough week or two. I've lost count at this point. Yet the cause of the pain has been the same. It's my mind drifting into the hypothetical, the future…