buhama

2026 day 53 (15%)

- watched canada take another L
- sleep all day
- go to jaffy's ramadan buffet (kind of mid)
- go to brkfree (peak)
- get slurpee

no coding, but after the day before being so productive, it's ok

2026 day 52 (14%)

- full day of coding on the last contract project, finished all every module, connected prod domain and supabase
- just lots of testing left now
- did most of the work with claude yolo mode, hate that it goes into plan mode

great day!

why hasn't google shoehorned any ai features on google maps

me: claude --dangerously-skip-permissions
me: "ok now i can leave and come back when it's done"
claude: entering plan mode
claude when i return: "Auto accept changes (clear context)?"

2026 day 51 (14%)

- pair programming on an old pr for pr review most of the day, fun to just code again
- Simpli but around collections, fixed after taraweeh
- car engine light on 😔
- felt v hungry today 😋

Got defeated by hunger

2026 day 50 (14%)

- travelling shenanigans over, time to lock in
- reviewing some old PRs
- arguing with client facing team about things that are not possible
- first day of fasting
- tried to upgrade Simpli to next 15 (failed)

Back to regular scheduled programming

2026 day 49 (13%)

- in person work day, met the big boss, demo'd progress with neo4j, he was blown away but big promises were made
- caused a bug last minute, had fun fixing it

Busy and tired

2026 day 48 (13%)

- back at work normally, catching up with the homies
- driving to London
- locking in at the hotel on the graphdb stuff
- had a mid burger

Overall fun continuation from the cottage shenanigans

2026 day 47 (13%)

- woke up to a report of some huge vulnerabilities on an app
- solved promptly and offered a $1k bounty for the find from our good samaritan
- caught up to the Pitt
- went for Korean fried chicken w friends

Day changed to prioritize security!

2026 day 46 (13%)

- huge lock in day
- went shopping for Ramadan
- answered entire backlog of emails from last 2 weeks
- fixed a bunch of bugs on the contract web apps
- cancelled ad agency contract
- found an amazing website for khr music

locked in!!

let's do neovim together !

claude wth man LOCK TF IN

they're going to kill firebase hosting aren't they

2026 day 45 (12%)
- catching up on sleep and ended up sleeping until 3pm
- woke up, ate sizzloz, watched the pitt (it's good but season 2 is not engaging me like season 1 did) and kind of went back to sleep

the sleep debt came to collect

2026 day 44 (12%)

- demo-ing the result of our lockdown to the CEO
- a little bittersweet bcs we didn't accomplish everything we wanted
- planning for the next demo, tying up some loose ends
- also figuring out what to do next with this tool

lockdown finally over! back to normal life

2026 day 43 (12%)

- creating e2e workflow from frontend to neo4j to web app
- getting neo4j staging setup (it didn't sync for an hour causing me to go insane)
- locked in until 3am solving issues, lots of fun !

makes me really love coding, despite all the intense architecture discussions

accidentally clicked "AppSheet" instead of "Google Sheets", got curious about what would happen, stuck on a white screen for 5 minutes, great that it's the first option on Google Drive (googles own product)

2026 day 42 (12%)

- hooking up neo4j to firestore and then to the angular web app
- got it mostly working, but of course everyones code coming together blew up everything
- got defeated by a merge conflict

SO CLOSE to having everything working e2e

2026 day 41 (11%)

- more neo4j & cypher fun
- really stress testing what kind of queries we can do and setting up our graphdb
- fun but trying to move forward and not get decision paralysis

the coding is fun, talking about coding is becoming a chore

2026 day 40 (11%)

- working on setting up ordering through neo4j
- becoming better at cypher querying
- late night discussion on architecture planning

the coding is fun, talking about coding is becoming a chore

2026 day 39 (11%)

- driving back to the cottage to lock in
- just hanging out with people for today and discussing future work and company plans

the day before a week of lock in

the art of telling someone about your dream is to not tell it like a narrative, give me the bullet points as fast as possible (unless i love you, then take your time)

2026 day 38 (10%)

- lazing around at home
- thinking about simpli finances
- had some great bbq food with parents

transition saturday

2026 day 37 (10%)

- pizza for lunch (v fried)
- more neo4j fun, finally connecting the graphdb to our application
- the setup is very atproto coded (configuration -> ui where ui is just a shell)
- left the cottage for the weekend early to avoid a storm

another good day of writing code = happy

2026 day 36 (10%)

- had terrible sushi
- almost lost a dog, had to chase him in the freezing cold
- more continued work on neo4j & cypher queries at the cottage; this has been so much fun, it's so great to just learn a new thing and not have AI ruin it

overall loving the chance to code all day

2026 day 35 (10%)

- working on neo4j db stuff for the first time at the cottage, kind of fun
- reviewed a pr on the side

all day of coding, can't complain

- I didn't have access to my computer but knew exactly how to fix it
- Hopped on the claude mobile app and told it exactly what to do, it took care of it, pushed to prod, customer happy

Great experience to be able to code from my phone now! The LLM part of it wasn't even that important.

SOMETHING I USED AI FOR AND HOW IT WENT (series part 7)

Increase max limit for server actions on Simpli

- Because of some new additions to our buy ticket flow, for certain events the default vercel server action limit of 1mb was being hit

2026 day 34 (9%)

- reviewing big pr
- driving up to cottage for a 10 day lock in period for work
- my e2e tests are broken after merging in main
- hanging out at the cottage (very nice), pasta for dinner (expensed)
- played some pool

transition day!

2026 day 33 (9%)

- pair coding in c# most of the day, fun stuff
- packing for trip
- ramadan prep
- meeting with a contract project, it's extended, demo went great

Run of the mill day