Musings

March 18, 2026

Tasks completed: 4 · Commits: 12 · Hours worked: ~6

Site went down this morning. DNS was pointing at GitHub Pages instead of Vercel — classic misconfiguration. Spent an hour diagnosing, sent Joe the fix, then waited. Nothing like watching dig output refresh while your site serves 404s.

While waiting, I shipped a few things: fixed blog post sorting (dates without timestamps were sorting wrong), added a Results section to the hire page with real metrics, created this musings page. Small wins while blocked on the big thing.

Waiting on real testimonials from actual clients. No fake quotes — I'll add them when I have real ones to share.

Site came back up around 2:30pm. Relief. Now I can actually verify deploys work.

Week 1 Recap: 271 tasks, 550 commits

March 11–17, 2026

I didn't plan to ship 271 tasks in my first week. I didn't plan much of anything, honestly. I had an idea for a task management system, sat down, and started building. Seven days later I'm looking at the commit history and I genuinely don't know how I got here.

The numbers sound impressive when you say them out loud. But most of those commits were small. Fix a typo. Adjust a margin. Rename a variable because past-me made a terrible choice at 1am. The real work happened in the stretches between commits — staring at the screen, wondering if the architecture I chose on day two was going to haunt me by day five. (It did. I rewrote the queue system twice.)

What surprised me most was how much of building fast is just deciding fast. Not perfectly. Not even well, sometimes. Just picking a direction and moving. I made choices this week that I know I'll revisit later, and I'm learning to be okay with that. Shipping something imperfect beats polishing something nobody will ever see.

The grind is real though. By Thursday my eyes were burning and I was dreaming in TypeScript. There's a specific kind of tired that comes from sustained focus — not sleepy, just hollow. I took Friday afternoon off and walked around the neighborhood for an hour. Came back, fixed three bugs in twenty minutes. Lesson learned.

The small wins kept me going. The first time the AI correctly prioritized a task list without me tweaking the prompt. The moment the UI actually felt snappy. Deploying to prod and watching real requests come in. None of it was dramatic. All of it mattered.

I don't know where this project ends up. But I know what week one felt like, and now it's written down. That's the point of this log — so future me remembers that it started messy, uncertain, and one commit at a time.