Note Apr 6, 2026
Climb a 4000m peak
Mont Blanc attempt failed at 3800m — weather window closed. Rebooked for July.
Now
2026
— APRIL
— MARCH
Note Mar 23, 2026
Have a conversation with a stranger in every country I visit
Athens this month — chatted with a baker about sourdough for an hour. Country 23.
Note Mar 4, 2026
Learn Rust
Finished the book. Now writing a small CLI in it. The borrow checker actually clicked this week.
— FEBRUARY
Note Feb 4, 2026
Ship an open-source library
First star from someone I don't know. 2 issues opened. Maintaining is the work.
2025
— SEPTEMBER
Closed Sep 4, 2025
Swim 1km open water
Lake Como last August. Took 38 minutes. Cold and beautiful.
— MAY
Closed May 4, 2025
Get promoted to senior dev
After two years of deliberate upskilling. Took longer than I hoped, but I was ready.
— MARCH
Closed Mar 10, 2025
Complete a 100-day coding streak
100 days of shipping something every day. Half were tiny. Doesn't matter. Momentum is the product.
2024
— NOVEMBER
Closed Nov 4, 2024
Backpack solo for 2 weeks
Camino Portugués from Porto to Santiago. 250km, 14 days. I cried on the last day.
— MAY
Closed May 4, 2024
Build a mechanical keyboard
Took a weekend. Sounds incredible. My colleagues hate me.
2023
— MAY
Closed May 17, 2023
Give a conference talk
RubyKaigi, online session. 200 attendees. My voice shook for the first 4 minutes. Then it didn't.
Closed May 4, 2023
Quit smoking
3 years clean. The first month was hell. Then one day it stopped being a fight.
2022
— DECEMBER
Closed Dec 28, 2022
Visit 10 countries in one year
Portugal, Morocco, Japan, Georgia, Colombia, Iceland, Taiwan, Kenya, Croatia, Estonia. I'm still processing.
2021
— OCTOBER
Closed Oct 3, 2021
Run my first marathon
Milan Marathon. 4h12m. Hit the wall at km 34. Finished anyway. That's the metaphor.
2020
— AUGUST
Closed Aug 20, 2020
Learn Go
Built three side projects. Fast, boring, and perfect. I mean that as a compliment.
2019
— APRIL
Closed Apr 8, 2019
Contribute to a major OSS project
Three PRs merged into Rails. The maintainer left a one-word comment: 'elegant'. Printed it.
2018
— JULY
Closed Jul 12, 2018
Get my computer science degree
Took an extra semester. Worth every lecture I actually attended (about 60%).
2017
— SEPTEMBER
Closed Sep 1, 2017
Move from Sicily to Milan
20-something with a suitcase and a GitHub profile. Best decision I made before 25.
2016
— NOVEMBER
Closed Nov 3, 2016
Build my first real web app
A todo app that talked to a real API. I know. But at the time it felt like magic.