Well, ‘el muro 2’. I figured it was time to tackle that thing again. The first attempt, let’s just call ‘el muro 1’, wasn’t exactly a roaring success. More like a quiet fizzle, if I’m being totally honest with myself. Lots of ambition, not so much actual… wall.
So, I decided to give ‘el muro 2’ a proper go. This time, I told myself, keep it simple. That was the main rule. No getting bogged down in fancy features or trying to make it perfect from day one. Just get the basic idea working. I just wanted to build a small utility, something for myself, to help manage some digital notes I have scattered all over the place. Nothing earth-shattering, just a personal itch I wanted to scratch.
I sat down and started sketching things out. Pulled up my usual editor. I consciously chose some older, familiar tools this time. Last time, I think I got sidetracked by trying out all the shiny new frameworks, and that just complicated things unnecessarily. So, back to basics for ‘el muro 2’. I mapped out the core functions: add a note, find a note, maybe tag a note. That was it.
The initial coding went surprisingly smoothly. I got the basic interface up, could create new entries, could see them listed. I was actually feeling pretty good about it, thinking, “Hey, this ‘el muro 2’ might actually happen!” And then, of course, I hit the wall. The part where I needed to make sure everything saved correctly and, more importantly, loaded back up without turning into gibberish. Simple file operations, you’d think, but it just wouldn’t behave. Data would disappear, or the formatting would get completely messed up. I spent hours, genuinely hours, just staring at that piece of code, trying different approaches. It felt like hitting my head against a brick wall, literally the ‘muro’ itself.
I got pretty frustrated, I won’t lie. There were a few moments where I was seriously tempted to just scrap the whole ‘el muro 2’ project. Thought to myself, “Maybe this just isn’t going to work. Maybe I should just stick to what I know.” It’s a rotten feeling when you pour time into something and it just fights you every step of the way. I even started looking for alternative ways to manage my notes, thinking I’d just give up on building my own thing.
Then, after sleeping on it, I came back the next morning. Poured a coffee, sat down, and just looked at the problem with fresh eyes. I decided to simplify the saving mechanism even further, almost to a ridiculous degree. I’d been trying something a bit too clever before. And you know what? The simplest, most straightforward approach, the one I’d initially dismissed as too basic, just worked. Like flipping a switch. The data saved, it loaded, everything was there. The wall just sort of…crumbled.
So now, ‘el muro 2’ is a real thing. It’s running on my machine. It’s not the prettiest application, and it probably has a few quirks here and there. It’s definitely not going to win any design awards. But it does exactly what I set out for it to do: it helps me manage my notes. And for me, that’s the win. Getting it finished, especially after the first one didn’t quite pan out, feels good. It’s a good reminder that sometimes you just gotta keep chipping away, and that the simple path is often the best one. And overcoming that particular ‘wall’ was pretty satisfying, I have to say.
