Monday Morning is a Trap. My 10-Minute “Sunday Reset” for a Frictionless Week ☕

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It’s Friday. You’re likely staring at a messy IDE, a terminal with 12 dead tabs, and a brain that is 90% in "Weekend Mode."

The standard hustle-culture advice? "Start a weekend project! Build a SaaS! Grind LeetCode!"

My Senior-level advice? Don't. In 2026, the gap between a "Burnt Out" developer and a "High-Performer" isn't about how many hours they spend coding on Saturday.

It’s about how much cognitive friction they remove before Monday morning. I call this the Sunday Reset. It takes 10 minutes, and it saves me 10 hours of "Monday Fog."

Here are the 4 specific resets I do to make sure Monday morning feels like a downhill sprint.

1. The Agent Health-Check (Cursor + Roo Code) 🤖

By Friday, your AI Agent has probably "learned" a bunch of temporary hacks you used to fix bugs during the week. If you don't reset its context, it will keep suggesting those same hacks on Monday, even for new features.

The Reset: Clear your "Composer" or Chat history. Update your .cursorrules (or global instructions). If you discovered a specific architectural pattern that worked this week, hard-code it into your agent's instructions now.
The Payoff: On Monday, you aren't fighting your AI; you're working with an assistant that actually remembers your current "Best Practices."

Senior Tip: Treat your AI Agent like a Junior Dev. If you don't give it a clear brief after a weekend break, it will hallucinate.

2. The Latency Purge (Ghostty Terminal) 👻

We spend 8 hours a day in the CLI. If your terminal has even 20ms of input lag, you are draining your mental battery without realizing it.

The Reset: Kill all those "ghost" processes from Friday. I’ve switched entirely to Ghostty (the GPU-accelerated terminal) because it’s the only thing that keeps up with 2026-level workflows. Reset your tabs. Close your SSH sessions.
The Payoff: A fresh, snappy terminal. It sounds small, but "zero-latency" typing is the fastest way to get back into the Flow State after 48 hours away.

3. The "Local First" Fallback (Ollama + DeepSeek) 🏠

Monday mornings are notorious for "Service Outages." If your productivity depends entirely on a *cloud API *(OpenAI/Anthropic) and they go down, your morning is wasted.

The Reset: Ensure your local Ollama instance is running and has the latest weights for a lightweight, high-performance model (like Llama 3.3 or DeepSeek-V3).
The Payoff: If the internet is spotty or the cloud is lagging on Monday, you have a private, instant "Brain" on your local machine. No excuses.

4. The "One-Command" Environment (Nix / Devenv) ❄️

Nothing kills Monday momentum faster than: "Wait, why is my Node version wrong?" or "The database container won't start."

The Reset: Run devenv up or your Nix shell command once on Sunday evening. Just once. Make sure the environment mounts and the dependencies are cached.
The Payoff: When you cd into your project on Monday, you aren't a "System Administrator." You're a Developer.

The 10-Minute Challenge

This weekend, don't build a new app. Sharpen your tools instead.