Vicki Boykis

New post: if you're a developer and you're feeling down these days, it's ok. One way to recover is to build stuff for yourself, with the process and tools that you dictate.

https://vickiboykis.com/2026/03/04/antidote/

Antidote

Give yourself the gift of friction

Mar 5 at 11:32pmWeb
Show threadRohit Farmer, Ph.D.Mar 6

@vicki agreed. I love the process of building things for myself, and now, with the help of AI, I can build things I only dreamed of before. That, too, just by dictating to the AI what to do. For example my own SSG for my journaling website.

https://github.com/rohitfarmer/driftnotes

GitHub - rohitfarmer/driftnotes: DriftNotes: A lightweight journaling engine for thoughts that drift between tweets and blogs.

DriftNotes: A lightweight journaling engine for thoughts that drift between tweets and blogs. - rohitfarmer/driftnotes

GitHub
Show threadShannon Quinn Mar 6
@vicki My recent job change, which has given me the gift of occasional free time, gave me the head+time space to get back into building things for myself and creating for the sake of creating, and it is **glorious**
Show threadVicki BoykisMar 6
@magsol ❤️
Show threadottoMar 7
@vicki building stuff for myself is where I'm at and have been since I retired 16 years ago. I made good money but began to see the deadly uses my employers usually had for my work. Thought I would never write another line of code. There are lots of good projects, e.g. for environmental causes, that put the fun back in the work.