I’ve been practicing HTML, CSS, and JavaScript for an hour every day for the past week. It’s been fun. I create a Pen on CodePen and I build away. Sometimes, it’s something super simple because I don’t know what I’m doing. Other times, I get ambitious and build something more involved like a todo app. It’s only been a week and I feel like I’ve grown so much. I’m excited to see how much my abilities will grow in a month I’m a firm believer in doing small things consistently over a long period of time.

I’m a wannabe indie hacker, but I struggle to find ideas that are worth building. So I’ve been reading Indie Opportunities to find some spark of inspiration. The articles are worth the read. Some of the opportunities aren’t within my interests, but they still provide a ton of value. For example, you can apply the frameworks to any business or category you’re interested in. When you pay for the premium version, the value jumps dramatically Indie Opportunities is the definition of undervalued.

His name is Cesar Aguirre. Do I know Cesar personally? Nope. Does the developer community need to know Cesar? YES. I have never met Cesar or spoken to him via DMs. That’s the beauty of the internet. You find people you would have never thought existed. If I didn’t publish to dev.to, then I would have not known of Cesar’s existence. He liked my post and I got curious to learn more about the person behind the like I clicked on his profile and I saw a link to his website.

I suck at staying in touch with people. Or do humans in general suck at maintaining social relationships? That’s a deeper philosophical question I’d like to answer in the future. Anyways… I’ve made so many social relationships in the past 3 years, but I’ve taken no action to maintain them. I’m not saying I want to invite people to weekly dinners. I’m suggesting a simple text or email message saying “Hey, how are you?