I have struggled to make time for personal programming projects since I started my first full-time job in September. This isn’t necessarily a bad thing; graduating from university and starting a full-time job is a big life event, and it is important to find a new rhythm and work-life balance. And now, after two months, I want to reintroduce some focus on programming outside of work. That’s how I came up with “HACK WEEK”!

The goal of my first “HACK WEEK” is to create some structured time to work on Obsidian Quickshare and Noteshare.space. There are a few goals I want to accomplish, ordered by most pressing to most ambitious:

I think it would feel too much like a chore with a deadline if I would schedule each goal on a specific date. So instead I will organize the work into milestones that I can progress through at my own pace:

Milestone 1: ☑️

• [2022-11-13] 🔐 Upgraded encryption (encryption v3)
• [2022-11-13] 🍀 Store share link in frontmatter
• [2022-11-14] 🍀 Filename as note title

Milestone 2:

• 🐞 Properly rendering inline footnotes
• 🐞 Fix header links to same note
• 🐞 Add favicon for mobile systems.

Milestone 3:

• 🍀 Manually setting expire time
• 🚀 Deleting shared notes
• 🚀 Updating shared notes

Milestone 4:

• 🕵️ Proof-of-concept attachments with Cloudflare R2
• 🕵️ Research billing model for attachment hosting

Planning

I predict that I will feel less motivated to work on “HACK WEEK” after a work day (I can only write TypeScript for so many hours a day 😅), so I will try to include two weekends in the hack week. Concretely, this means “HACK WEEK” will run from 11-11-2022 to 20-11-2022.

After hack week is over, I will write a follow-up post to talk about the experience (and whether it was really such a good idea in the first place).