the advice is to not wait for a first of the month or a the hour mark or the hour and thirty minute mark before starting something. it might not look like it but i followed that advice.
i promise. i did.
i have always wanted to write. during the covid lockdown i read and unhealthy amount of blog posts on how to write crime thrillers, thinking of myself as the next john grisham or james patterson.
over the past six years that dream has faded. now i write software. not like i have ever completed and published one but i have attempted to write web apps.
i don't really like it. feels like i am gluing stuff together rather than building. doesn't feel impressive.
but i'm doing it.
i have an idea that i want to see through. i am naming it thanda. it would live at thanda.co.
thanda is xhosa, or zulu, for love, or like.
i bought the .co before checking who occupied the .com so if you own thanda.com please don't sue me. it would freak my family out.
it is going to be a writing tool.
you write something. send it to somebody via links that can only be opened by them. so they cannot reshare.
it is scratching a itch so i might add features that i like.
i think of it as a way to send long form thoughts to friends and family.
when you try it out you would understand why i said so.
in parallel i would brush up my data structure and algorithm skills, learn rust and try my hand at compiler building.
i am micah aisosa asowata. i am a 19 years old computer science student. i want to be technically cracked.
i have no clue where i want to work. i just want to build a compiler and make it blazingly fast and see where things go from there.
that is how i intend to spend this summer before entering second year of college.