Bucket List

Checked & Unchecked

Didn't chase followers. My open-source contributions and this portfolio site did the talking.

Open-sourced tools I built for myself. Useful code finds its audience.

Full-time remote at a forward-thinking company. No commute, no office politics — just shipping code from wherever.

Contributed a feature to a popular open-source library. First PR merged, started driving traffic to my GitHub.

A software engineer in San Francisco found me online and started outsourcing work. That first Wise payment in USD turned into an ongoing collaboration.

A notes app with localStorage. Terrible code, but when it worked without a page reload, something clicked.

Not SEO listicles. Real deep-dives on RSC internals, database indexing, building a bundler from scratch.

Go, Rust, or Swift. Something that forces me to think differently about the problems I already know how to solve.

By building something so useful that a thousand strangers vouch for it.

This site. Every pixel is intentional, every interaction earned its place. The project that ties everything else together.

No meat, no eggs. No exceptions, no 'just this once.' Years in and don't miss it.

All at once. No cheat days. The hardest bugs to fix are the ones in your diet.

No breaks, no excuses. Just chest to floor, 100 times, under 3 minutes 20 seconds.

Currently can't run 3K without wanting to quit. Sub-60 is the goal. Finishing is the real goal.

Started lifting, fell off, started again. 365 days without breaking the chain. The compound effect applies to muscle too.

A real conversation about building on the internet — the messy parts, not the highlights.

Not about the number. About the freedom it buys — the ability to say no to work that doesn't matter.

Not speed-reading. Actually finishing them. Highlighting, thinking, rereading the good parts.

Grew up without a pool. It's time. Not just floating — actual laps, actual breathing technique.

Boxing, jiu-jitsu, muay thai — something that teaches discipline through getting hit.

My legs shake on balconies. 13,000 feet of freefall. The fear is the point.

No itinerary, no safety net. A place where I don't speak the language. Getting lost on purpose.

Prague, Berlin, Lisbon. Working from cafes, collecting stories. Remote work made this possible — now I need to book the flight.

Breathing underwater. Seeing a world that's been there the whole time, just below the surface.