When things change
I had to take a small break from writing my weekly blog. I don't know about many of you, but I am a creature of habit, and if that habit is broken or interrupted at all everything goes down the drain. I had gotten a job after taking a couple months to myself, and severely underestimated the toll of working full time again and studying full time webdev / maintaining a weekly custom blog.
While that was a really cool project, and I will probably go back to it at some point. I think from here out, I am just going to be publishing my articles here. My original goal was to catalogue my learning journey and if I feel too overwhelmed to do everything that went into maintaining my blog, then I'm just not going to write the post or upload it.
Looking to the future
While I may have taken a break from writing a weekly blog, I did not take a break from learning and building. I have made a couple fun little CLI tools for learning purposes and am actively working on my first actual CLI app that I will personally be using and hope others find use in it as well (more on that very very soon, probably monday).
I am still not even halfway through my full stack dev path, but I can tell you this right now, I think I want to make CLI tools for devs to use. My biggest thing in life has been that I enjoy being of assistance to others. And in this field, what better way to do that than to work on dev tools?
I recently read this article about how developers don't make things anymore for the joy of learning something new. That really struck a cord with me. I used to be a video editor and one of my favorite things to do in my downtime was to tinker with weird things or to learn a new method for doing something to grow my abilities. I feel my natural desire to assist, coupled with my love of tinkering and learning will lend itself well regardless of what I end up doing as a dev.
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I really like how honestly you’ve shared your journey. Balancing full-time work, studying, and writing is not easy, and it’s inspiring to see how you’re still building and exploring new ideas like CLI tools.
My own focus right now is on expanding my business into the U.S. and European markets, especially around AI and Machine Learning. A key part of that goal is collaborating with other developers who are motivated by learning and building useful tools for others. Reading your post reminded me that curiosity and persistence are just as important as technical skills.
Keep going — your path and mindset are exactly what makes this field exciting.