• after spending so many months living with friends, staying in an apartment by myself is pretty meh. definitely prefer a community living situation where i come home to friends and have it be social-by-default rather than being social when i go out and being in solitude when i return
• i love sf because the people here are not only wicked smart but also warm and kind
• i don't remember feeling this unsafe walking around the streets of sf. can't tell how much of it is sf having changed compared to the last time i was here vs. me just forgetting what it's like
• got my massive shipment of huel today. man does not live on bread alone but huel might do the trick
• i co-worked with jessica and alex from playbook and we also spent a lot of time talking about browserflow. watching people use it for the first time (read: struggle hardcore) continues to be an incredibly eye-opening and helpful experience
• being around product/tech/engineering people is helpful because we can go into depth about what browserflow could be and it's helpful for thinking through things. e.g. alex described what he'd expect the api design for a long-running async service like browser automation to look like which was helpful
• i am in the thick of the existential crisis regarding what browserflow should be given how versatile it is
  • some of the ideas that alex and i tossed around: automated end-to-end tests (e.g. make sure logging in and performing core user flows works correctly); wrapper around services that don't provide apis for certain tasks (e.g. downloading a user's photos from instagram)
• the combination of sf being cold + a bit sketch + me living by myself rn led to a light sense of loneliness which i haven't experienced in a long, long time. was surprising because i've been spending a ton of time with friends
• this morning i woke up and had sleepy thoughts about turning road to ramen from a daily journal into a weekly vlog on youtube
  • i can see it now: "episode 513: i built a feature for someone who i thought was going to pay but didn't and now i'm reconsidering the last 10 years of working on browserflow"

<aside> 👋🏼 You're reading Road to Ramen, my public journal where I think aloud and share everything I learn in exploring the question: Can I make a living building things I love?

by DK the Human (@dk_the_human)

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