"Most of the satisfying parts of programming are the parts that look, from a distance, like nothing is happening."
developer · creator · human · the perpetual golden hour
Mostly in TypeScript. Sometimes in Rust. Always in the morning, before the day catches up. The work that makes me happiest fits in a single file.
Essays about the texture of code. Pencil drawings of buildings I half-remember. Imaginary weather forecasts for cities I've never been to. None of it is monetized; all of it is finished.
The cats outrank the notebook. I am working on becoming the kind of person whose notebook is mostly drawings and very few to-do items.
"Most of the satisfying parts of programming are the parts that look, from a distance, like nothing is happening."
"I keep a separate plain-text file for the projects I'm not going to do. It is, by a wide margin, the most useful file on my computer."
"The web was, for a long time, made by hobbyists. The web should still feel that way, sometimes."
"Golden hour lasts twenty minutes per day. The website lasts the rest."