My jaw is on the floor because this post seems like it could have been written by my future self. I can’t believe how much in common I have with the author.
I’ve realized I’m burnt out and have been planning to quit my job early next year (wanting to state this is the reason for the anon account).
But there’s a lot of people who are probably feeling this same way. What’s astonishing to me is what the author did is almost exactly what I’ve been daydreaming about doing in my time off.
I’ve also been thinking about the open/IndieWeb and how I’d like to engage with it. I was planning to build some sort of app to experiment in this space.
There are similarities even down to one of the specific problems in this space: how to prevent infrequent posts from being lost in the flood. And technical considerations: what languages and technologies to use. I had also been considering building something using modern web technologies, where I’m about 10 years out of date on web development.
In some ways, I’m delighted there’s another person out there to provide some validation to what I’ve been thinking and feeling recently. It makes me feel like I’m going to head down the right path.
In other ways, I’m upset and jealous the author got there first.