Productivity

You haven’t lived staging hell until your bug report gets closed because “it works on my seed data.” We’ve all been there. Shared staging environments, overwritten rows, test users with weird states, migrations colliding mid-QA. The closer you get to release, the more fragile everything feels. And the more often you hear, “Well it passed locally…” The problem isn’t just the code. It’s that we’re still treating databases like fixed, singular planets in a branching galaxy of dev and test environments. ...

At some point last month, I realized I hadn’t opened a “real” app in days. No calendar app. No separate to-do manager. No Word, no Excel, no IDE even, just a browser, a keyboard, and Notion with GPT whispering in the sidebar. Sometimes Obsidian. Sometimes ChatGPT itself. Always something that blurred the line between note-taking and system-building. It started as an experiment: could I run my whole digital life from just notes and AI? ...