Day job, eight weeks of evenings in this thing, and I've put in for Monday to Friday of launch week off. Now I'm looking at the empty calendar and realising I have no idea what to do with 40 hours. Honest list of what I…
Started tracking my side project time properly this month. Last week: 2h50 fighting a Docker layer cache in GitHub Actions, 1h25 rewriting my logger for no reason anyone could defend, 1h05 reading docs and changelogs,…
Uptime checks every minute, push straight to my phone. Last month it woke me three times: once real, the connection pool was exhausted and the app was properly down, and twice for blips that healed inside forty seconds…
Employer is a mid size fintech, about 600 people. My contract assigns inventions "relating to the company's field of business" with no time or equipment qualifier. My side project is a habit tracker with 60 paying…
Day job laptop is managed, work GitHub is behind company SSO, and realistically my best clear hour is between 12 and 1 sitting at my desk. Evenings are two tired hours after the kid goes down. I want a setup where there…
Day job went from occasionally paged to a formal rotation: one week on, two off. The on call week is a write off. I am tired, I cannot start anything that needs more than twenty minutes of head space, and twice now I…
I sit down at 20:30 planning three hours. By 22:00 I am reading changelogs and moving trello cards around instead of writing anything. People online describe four productive evening hours routinely and I cannot get near…
Pattern is always the same. Sunday evening is my longest block, I finish something around 22:30, ship it because it feels wasteful not to, go to bed, wake to error emails, fix it at 6am, then do a full day of work on…
Tuesday morning, in a meeting, phone face down. Customer emailed at 09:40 saying the app was returning errors. I saw it at 11:15. It was a database connection limit thing, fixed in twelve minutes once I looked. So the…
Standard clause about company resources in my contract, plus a management profile I cannot inspect. I have been writing the project on it at night because it is the machine I have, and I know that is dumb. What I do not…
B2B tool, $2.1k MRR, 34 customers, gross margin is fine because it is mostly Postgres and a small box. I have about 9 months of personal runway saved. Single income, no dependents, mid 30s. My instinct says quit and…
Web app is working and I use it daily. Two things left on my list before I would call it launchable: team accounts with shared workspaces and invites, or a React Native app so people can log entries away from a desk.…