Stories, notes and field reports about indie software.
“You can measure your worth by your dedication to your path, not by your successes or failures.” – Elizabeth Gilbert, Big Magic: Creative Living Beyond Fear I can’t argue that Elizabeth Gilbert knows a thing or two about passion projects, after all she has written quite a few books, including her well-known memoir “Eat, pray, love”. But what I will argue with is where ideas come from. She…
I want it to be lean - it should work with YOU. It works with your IDE, it works with your issue tracker, it doesn’t try to change how you work, it just makes it easy to provide feedback and iterate on the output. – Tomasz Tomczyk Just some years ago we, software developers, were fighting holywars on React vs. Vue vs. Angular, JavaScript vs TypeScript, Chrome vs Firefox and countless others. I…
We can never make anyone do anything against their will without enormous consequences. – Marshall B. Rosenberg I know a person who is generally very caring, reasonable and empathetic, but when they need to sell something to someone, be it an idea, a product, or a service, they tend to turn on the “EvilCorp” mode, as their team calls it. A slight exaggeration here, a little lie there, a slight…
“There’s a new kind of coding I call ‘vibe coding’, where you fully give in to the vibes, embrace exponentials, and forget that the code even exists. … I’m building a project or webapp, but it’s not really coding — I just see stuff, say stuff, run stuff, and copy paste stuff, and it mostly works.” – Andrej Karpathy, February 2025 One morning I woke up excited to spend some time on my side-project.…
Theodorus van Gogh (1 May 1857 – 25 January 1891) was a Dutch art dealer and the younger brother of Vincent van Gogh. Known as Theo, his support of his older brother’s artistic ambitions and well-being allowed Vincent to devote himself entirely to painting. As an art dealer, Theo van Gogh played a crucial role in introducing contemporary French art to the public. – Wikipedia GOG - Good Old Games -…
To me, the main non-negotiable point is the ethical aspect of the project. From having everything opensource, to being selfhosting friendly and privacy-focused, no dark patterns, no shady stuff, no monetization of user data, no bullshit. It’s really important for me to build a product that I can be proud of, that aligns with my values, and that make a positive impact, even if it means slower…
…I’ve always known that I’ve been missing out and the modern day just lacks that special charm… – Palace, “Back to ’85” Ghostbusters were released in 1984, the first Back to the Future movie and Microsoft Windows - in 1985; and 1986 has brought us The Legend of Zelda and Castlevania. It was a different era, the one I too experienced only by watching the movies and playing games. You might be…
