hjr265

For me, it started as a way express ideas. I wanted to build a platform where I could implement the ideas I acquired and thought about during my time as a competitive programmer. One could say it was a scratch-your-own-itch project.

I have never set any concrete targets for this project. No growth targets, no revenue targets. And that resulted in simpler motivations for the project.

Experiencing the evolution of the project in itself has been both a motivation and a reward.

Ever since I started the 100DaysToOffload challenge, I have been writing a bit more frequently on my personal blog: https://hjr265.me/blog/.

Apart from it being a writing excersie, I have been forced to look at my own work more critically before presenting them on the Internet.

I now find it more important to understand new concepts in-depth, as I learn them, so that I can explain them better.

I think about learning things that are beyond what I need for my regular work.

And, yes, I admit that I have used my blog at least once to vent about something.

The stack includes Go, MongoDB, Redis, RabbitMQ, etc.

Not only have I been gaining software engineering skills, I am also learning aspects of business and growing a community.

I am doing this, of course, beside my client work and open source projects. And, fortunately, my client work tends to be interesting enough and provide opportunities for learning new stuff almost all the time.

I don't know if it is true for everyone or if I am phrasing this right, but keeping myself busy actually building something/anything helps the most (instead of just chasing whatever is new out there).

Blog and other personal site stuff