Why I’m Starting This Journal
I’ve been thinking a lot about my personal projects this year. I know I have potential as a developer, a personal trainer, and someone who understands the problems people face around training, recovery, health, and productivity. I also know I’ve been inconsistent with actually turning that potential into finished work.
I want to change that.
This space — TrainCodeSleep — will be my accountability journal. I’m starting it because I want to build a portfolio of simple, useful utility apps that I personally need: things that help me track training, manage calories, stay focused, cut distractions, and improve recovery. If they help me, I believe they can help other people too. There is a beutiful quote from Steve Jobs which which I have known yet before he died. It says:
“Everything around you that you call life was made up by people that were no smarter than you and you can change it, you can influence it, you can build your own things that other people can use.”
I’m a software engineer with experience, and I want to finally apply that to something of my own. Something real. Something I can ship. I want to take the same standards I use at work — structure, quality, clarity — and bring them to my own projects.
My goal is simple:
Build consistently, ship regularly, and track my progress publicly so I stay on track.
Below is a letter to my future self — the version of me in twelve months who hopefully has a few apps published, a steady rhythm, and a clearer sense of direction.
Letter to Future Me — for 01/12/2026
If you’re reading this, it means a full year has passed since you finally committed to building in public. Today marks the start — the launch of TrainCodeSleep as your accountability journal.
You know what you want: create something of your own, and that dream originated even before taking on university. To make this happen I need a real and visible progress, and momentum. No more drifting, no more overthinking.
Future me, I expect you to have released something. It doesn’t have to be perfect — just real, functional, and yours. I expect consistency, even when tired or busy. I expect progress, not excuses.
This is day one. Make the next twelve months count.