Hacker Residency: Day #8

Hey everyone 👋🏻

I know you were expecting to see this article the day before, but I decided to test something new and write the next day 👀.

The goal behind this is simply to be able to put the computer away earlier and sleep better haha! Until now, I was writing my articles in the evening in my bed, when returning to the hotel. It's cool, but I always ended up scrolling on X, answering my emails and working, which doesn't put you in great conditions for sleeping.

So I'm trying this! But while writing this article, I realized it was quite complicated to look back on the previous day, and that I had a slightly less natural tone than usual 🤔.

Maybe I could develop a local app for Writizzy, which would allow me to only write, without having to open my browser? I'm open to your ideas if you have any!

Cycling is great, but it's hard

During the hacker residency social event, I met Rick, who lives right nearby and told me he was a road cycling fan haha, super coincidence! He offered to go for a ride the very next day, he said he could find me a road bike and everything.

I said yes, obviously!

So yesterday, at 9am, off to Hai Van mountain! Rick told me it was easy and fairly short, except I didn't realize he was a suuuuper cyclist, who has done a lot of competitions and has a great level 😂.

It wasn't easy...

20km to get to the mountain, 10k uphill, 10km downhill, and 20km to return: 60km in total, with 550m of elevation in 30 degrees 😭.

But we made it to the top, and it was incredible:

Needless to say, I was completely exhausted afterwards, and I had a lot of trouble working. I still managed to get into focus mode for 2 hours, that wasn't too bad :)!

Weird overwhelming feeling

Before finishing this article, I'd like to talk to you about a feeling I have from time to time while working on my projects, and that I can't seem to get rid of.

Maintaining and growing Uneed requires constant, quite substantial work: answering emails, posting on the blog and on X, posting in the community, fixing the most urgent bugs, working on new features, writing the newsletter... And of course, I'm working on other projects in parallel 😅.

As soon as I have a day where I can't or don't manage to work, the work to be done accumulates. And the more it accumulates, the less I want to work!

I feel like despite all the techniques I've been able to implement, and the work rhythm that I'm now able to maintain in the long term, I still haven't managed to solve this specific problem.

If you have any ideas, I'm open to them 👀.

That's all for today, see you tomorrow (or tonight..) 👋🏻

Thomas