Side-Projects

It’s 20:30 on a Sunday evening. My partner practically had to drag me out for a walk earlier to “turn off my brain.” Didn’t work. I’m back at my desk, Stalker 2 installed and untouched, Settlers 3 sitting there, Battle for Middle-earth gathering digital dust. What am I doing instead? Configuring RSS feeds and building automatic cover image systems for my blog. Yeah. I’m that kind of nerd. The Weekend Project Spiral Weekends don’t mean much when you’re constantly thinking about projects. I thought I’d work on the Vagrant WSL2 provider today - it’s been going well, making solid progress. But it’s Sunday, maybe I should relax? ...

The Plan vs. Reality Remember my last post about fucking off and resetting? About how I should focus on small, low-stress tasks during vacation? Yeah. About that. I decided to look at my local blog version. Just checking what’s missing, you know? Casual Sunday morning browsing. Then I visited my friend Márton’s site at omnitiker.eu. Nice clean design. Professional. And right there - a downloadable CV. “Oh yeah,” my brain said. “I used to have that too. I should add that back.” ...

The Setup I’m on vacation. First real time off in months. And instead of relaxing, I immediately opened Claude Code with a question: “What should I work on during my 3 days off?” Because that’s what I do. That’s what we all do, right? Time off = time to finally work on side projects without the day job getting in the way. Except this time, Claude called me out. The Brain Dump I started listing everything on my mind: ...