finished a day of coding on a new product and some #djangocon paperwork

some work today. Pretty productive

write some of today’s blog/email but run out of time #blog2

board meeting for one company, where I’ve been slinging code at. 4.5 hours, some of which was heated. Did some research on something AI related that has been bugging me for sometime; maybe another side project ?

made a list for today --> client work and setting sensible deadlines across projects

Only got ~6hrs of sleep, so try taking 120mg of lycopene...emailed back the WorkTime rep b/c their software isn't tracking any activity, it's crazy for it to be so broken in such a basic way...ask on Upwork forums if identity verification ever needs to happen again...created a Jira board for managing studying system design...started a pastebin system for rehearsing basic system design patterns daily b/c that's been working well for studying DSAs...feeling anxiety today, presumably from all the caffeine yesterday, so I'm going to take some Caffeine+ capsules to see if the extra vitamins in it makes the anxiety go away...run the Algolia HN API request that I found in the hnjobs repo in Postman as a first step towards grabbing those jobs myself...spent 30 minutes feeling anxious about what the next step should be, thinking I should set up the backend pulling jobs, before changing my mind and deciding I want to be able to use a frontend UI to connect my email address and then press a button to have the backend send an Gmail email for me...

Today I had 6 ideas for new projects/startups, and then I bought 10 domains. I should be building instead. fml

Strangely, nothing for my project(s). Consulting took its toll today, with code committed for 2 separate clients, and a good on-board for a 3rd. But I do have to get project work started, like ASAP. Might have to wake earlier tomorrow!

write blog and email for today

Got a real good idea on which I spent most of today’s morn and afternoon. Now back working on real stuff, aim is to finish the serverless functions for the new project

lots of client work on my plate today

started a new dayjob side project and got about 50% feature complete #mylife

nothing productive today

mostly client work and meetings today #mylife

sketched out more side project work. having some meetings midweek

early morning coding session, queue to get finished designs from API #drawcolors

client work and not getting nearly as much as I had hoped done today #mylife

not much done today but really busy. took time to just understand why

Worked on a first draft of a 1-page "how to hire and manage remote workers" PDF that I want to start sending along with my resume and possibly also use as a marketing thing for my Wailes & Company remote work management consultancy idea...drank a double espresso ~4-5hrs before my expected bedtime, I hope I don't regret this...emailed another YouTuber but w/ a slightly different email approach...continuing to learn how to use Cursor, resolved a deploy.yml error by signing into GitHub after some Googling to understand what was going on...spent a while breaking up my backend code into sub-app directories as a way of setting the stage to work on multiple app ideas at the same time, and also to continue to build familiarity with Go since I'm still very new to it...spending the time after the caffeine high has kind of worn off (3hrs post-double-espresso) just thinking about what I should work on next...decide on some next small steps for tomorrow: 1) be able to query the Algolia HN API and get back the list of HN jobs, 2) set up a new db schema for the jobs app, 3) figure out how to best use ChatGPT to analyze the different job posts (individual queries vs. some kind of batch request).

syned up a few project settings and tried to stage some client and side project work for tomorrow