Software engineer � weekend photographer � occasional writer
After three years of fighting database backups, plugin updates and a creeping list of unused features, I went back to the basics. Plain Markdown, a folder of templates, and a build step that fits in a single Makefile.
I tried something simple this month: no screen for the first hour after waking. The first three days were rough. By Friday I had finished a book I had been carrying around for half a year.
A small set of sketches from the past two weekends. The yellow on the brick wall lasts maybe twenty minutes a day right now � worth showing up for.
Some software gets attention because it is exciting. Some of it just sits there for ten years and quietly does its job. I want to write about a few of those tools.