I got a small pack of Posca paint markers and I want to draw on every surface around me. These are my pocket notebooks.
Sometimes it gets reaaaally dificult to trust the process.
Inhale... hold... exhale.
I was doing some research about POSSE on an 11ty website when I landed on this post by Yuya Saito and I got my mind blown by the explanation about comment-driven development. I sometimes do the same, but how Yuya explains it is almost poetic.
"Just like writing an essay, I need find out something to rely on."
Go read it at virga.frontendweekly.tokyo.
Memories
May 26, 2025
With time, our memories start jumbling up, tangling, getting fuzzy.
I feel like I lived a lifetime from 15 to 20, then from 40 to 45 it was a blink. Some people say it’s the percentage of your life those years represent. I don’t think it works like that. I think i’ts a problem of us not being mindful of the things we live.
When you drive from work to home, you barely register what happened. If right after you arrive you try to remember what whas happenning in a certain block or street, most likely you won’t be able to recall it. That dynamic starts slowly happening with everything we live, especially in the cotidianity.
A few years ago, looking into this, I found this video from Johnny Harris. It made a lot of sense. He asks “what’s the most important thing that happened to you in April 2011?”
Right? Impossible to know.
This subject is very important to him too and he suggests a photo practice that helps being more mindful of the things we live. I won’t bother you with details, but it’s about constantly revisiting and curate out photos and videos from past days.
For instance, I just revisited my phone photos from this last weekend (a trip to the beach being the most important memory) and reduced 100+ photos and videos down to a few (probably less than 10). These photos are now my tangible memory of this weekend, and the process of revisiting and curate the whole thing consolidates the day into my memory, very much like telling or writting down your dreams right after waking up makes them permanent.
I just realized it's been 5 years since the COVID-19 lockdown. All events from that time on are tangled up in my memory as a drawer full of old wires.
After years dealing very consciously with depression, things get weird. You start feeling it coming, but a part of you is aware of what's happening and how you're feeling and why, and even though that doesn't stop the depression from creeping in, understanding it makes it much easier to bear.
Also, during those episodes, while feeling it, it is useful to separate the blob into individual emotions, feelings and causes, and making decisions based on those causes and the intensity and disconfort of the symptoms.
AMOR FATI
After weeks of reading, listening and watching stuff about vibe coding, I got my hands dirty today (as dirty as they can get by typing prompts), and folks... THIS IS A MA ZING.
I asked ChatGPT to rewrite the previous post (Feeling the feels…) keeping my style but optimizing it for engagement, and wow. That would've helped me A LOT in my time in the marketing team at Nearsoft. Here's the original and here's the ChatGPT one.
