I Built a Custom App in a Day. That Is Not the Interesting Part.

Last night, I stayed up too late because I was building something I was excited about. That sentence used to mean something different. A year ago, staying up until 3:30 AM meant I was deep in a feature, fighting CSS, debugging edge cases. Last night, it meant I went from recognizing a repeated workflow problem to having a working, tested, production-ready application. In about twelve hours. (7 of those, I was sleeping) Here is how that happened. The Problem I Kept Solving by Hand I had spent the