Some thougs following a trip to Bosnia and Herzegovina — specifically Sarajevo, Mostar, and Kravica waterfalls.

So here’s the moment when the main topics have run out and I don’t know what to write about right now.

I vibe-coded an app purely for myself, called it Timeline — a web application. I took the reference and overall inspiration from Alexander Zaytsev.

Much advice on task management systems is about how to organize your tasks, and in most cases – how to add structure. In my opinion, this is wrong and you should always seek ways to reduce organization – until it’s enough.

I’m not a particularly artistic person. I’m not a photographer, painter, musician, actor or anything else. I’m just a software engineer with some hobbies.

My only public display of creativity is this blog and some channel for my friends. So it’s writing. But whether it’s because I’m used to doing it, or simply because these are just written thoughts from my head, I don’t consider it creative “for real”.

For a long time I used Bear app for my notes. I wrote draft posts there, logged my days, stored info about work tasks. It’s a good app, with really cool design and good sync. But it’s not local files and in age of AI agents it’s a real red flag for an app. I can’t simply point agent to some file for context.

I already moved to Obsidian multiple times for some period of time, but there was always something to frustrate me. It’s not so good in UX as Bear. Yeah, infinite tinkering, multiple plugins and local files – good, but…

And I did it again. Bought Sync for a month to try and support devs, exported all notes from Bear and started to use Obsidian. But this time it’s different.

Every week someone tells you there’s a new AI tool you must try or you’ll be left behind. New model, tool, workflow or approach. Miss it – and you’re out. This sounds familiar, because we’ve seen this pattern before.

Recently I came across some sort of online flashmob, with the question something like “How many seasons (like in TV series) were in your life”? And I thought – it’s a good question for self-reflection. Instead of TV seasons could be chapters or acts, call them whatever you like.

This world is extremely complex and deceptively simple.

I think a good thing to borrow from the product world for our lives is the hypothesis/experiment cycle.