musings 5.1.25

  • Stumbled across the blog of the developer behind bearblog.dev today. Really enjoyed reading his posts, and checking out his blogging platform too.
  • Lately, I've been more and more inspired to build little toy software projects, just for fun. Not sure if I want to turn them into a business 🤷🏽‍♂️ but I do want to keep going with it as a hobby. I genuinely enjoy designing and coding my own stuff, so this post hit at the right time.
  • I’m especially excited to get the Obsidian plugin I’ve been working on (with another Recurser!) out into the world 🚀
  • I’ve also been doing the AI-guided system design practice on HelloInterview, and honestly… it’s kind of solid. I enjoy using it. Makes me curious how it works under the hood 🤖 I'll ask a friend into AI (feel free to volunteer yourself). Might be a good excuse to learn how to set up and call LLMs properly, and see how they can fit into real products.
  • Read a few pages of this book recently that made a distinction between anxiety vs. worry, and stress vs. pressure. Found that surprisingly useful. Pressure feels good (keeps you sharp), but stress, not so good.
  • I'm ironically back to using Noteplan for todos and enjoying it a lot. As I said in January, it's what best fits how my brain works. I use it as my todo list app and work journal, while still using Obsidian for note-taking.
  • I also have been enjoying a Windows-style task bar on my Macbook. This is such a keeper. Idk how I lived without it before. Mac window management sucks wtf