Several days ago, I read Xuanwo’s 2024 Review - 40 questions to myself, I think I should also make one, to make my life look like it is not that boring.

1.What did you do this year that you’d never done before?

• We had a wedding.
• I started a new career as indie developer, bootstrapped Boring Design
• I moved from Hangzhou to Vancouver.
• I started to learn web 3 systematically.

2. Did you keep your new year’s resolutions?

No. I do not think I have new year’s resolution. Should I make one?

This is the first weekly recap in 2025.

I can not control myself from making new year resolutions, but I know that’s meaningless.

Recently I can not wake up on time, I am not sure whether it’s because of the lack of sleep or the lack of motivation. 😮‍💨

I read xuanwo’s blog 2024 Review - 40 questions to myself, I think I will also do a review of 2024 in the week.

Developer Experience (DX) Matters, especially for side projects, non-profitable open-source projects, and early staged bootstrapped business.

I Can NOT Stop Working on Day Job

Recently, when I have extra energy after day job, I noticed that I prefer to spend time on my day job project, then the open source project, and finally the side project. But hold on, I have already completed the planned work for the day job project, and based on the importance, I should spend time on the side project first, then the open source project, and finally maybe some leisure time.

I do NOT like message recall/replacement. I prefer to NOT use it during online conversations, for both personal and work-related sessions.

Recall or replacement messages encourage people to avoid taking responsibility for their words. It’s like saying, “I can say whatever I want, and if I regret it, I can just take it back.” It’s a way to avoid the consequences of our actions.

Also at the professional level, it’s a way to avoid accountability. If I have sent a message to a client or a colleague, I want to be responsible for what I said, which means, if I made a mistake, I will have to apologize and correct it. I don’t want to be able to take it back, and pretend it never happened.

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Professional Stuff

I take a review about products built by Boring Design:

• EasyDevo, Free, https://easydevo.boringboring.design/, clean my mac but for developers, majorly focus on cleaning javascript node_modules, rust targets, golang build cache, and xcode build cache.
• Haye, Paid with subscription, https://haye.ai/, an in-context AI assistant for MacOS. It could be triggered by selection then press the hotkey, then chat with context.
• Bridge, onetime payment, https://boringboring.design/products/bridge, a human-centric timezone tool. It could help remote teams to find other’s timezone.

We started our first commit at Sep 19, 2023, it has been 15 months. We did make some money, barely to cover the cost of server, services for the products. We need to put more effort into marketing, sales.