Love this!

Do you have any kind of journal entries from the time where you were weighing the decision? I bet that would be really cool to look back on.

Sweet, sweet yogurt memories are the great unifier

His 2025 writing course also seems like it's worth a watch: www.youtube.com/watch?v=MEUh...

I had a recent realization along these lines: it’s the doing that matters. I feel this a lot when trying to write music.

Even if the result isn't great, appreciating the struggle, the imperfection - the shittiness - builds skill and resilience.

That even if what you make sucks, goes unrecognized, unappreciated, you’re putting in the work and building the skills. He said he finds himself more willing to scrap entire projects because he doesn’t see them as a total loss, but rather cumulative experience gained.

I sat with this for a bit.

This reminds me of how I was indoctrinated by propaganda when I was a kid by watching dragon ball movies

My version of this is spending 1 hour vibe coding and 11 hours refactoring and begging Claude to adhere to cursor rules.

Any notable clones as of late?

TIL about dickspeed

> “Using a freakishly high tempo in Mario Paint allows for bypassing the five-note restriction as well as having multiple notes play simultaneously at different volumes.” This technique even has a special name. “This is often called ‘dickspeed’ by the Mario Paint community.”

How did you even find this? Tell me there’s a collection of Mario paint songs out there

It pops open Obsidian, creates a templated note prompting for my game plan, and only when I’m done does it execute the query. Code and demo here: github.com/mattlemmone/.... The demo video is a bit slow, so I suggest you 2x it at least.

Fork it, tinker with it, make it better!