One thing I realized from the residency, I’m way more of a perfectionist than I thought. Like bruh… the amount of stuff that has to go exactly right before I show or share something is crazy. All my friends could be like “yo this is good,” but me? I’m thinking “nahhh… give me another month.”

That’s WRONG. And honestly, the stuff you have seen? Thank my bruh for pushing me, if it was just me, you’d be seeing it 5 months later 😁.

Build → Share your “shitty” product → Iterate.
If you’re a perfectionist, just know it’s usually not helping, especially in the beginning. Took me way too long to figure that out.

@selfmadecoder

BTW, @CursorCommunityEth were kind enough to give me a $100 credit for Cursor Pro.. really appreciate it 🙏

@selfmadecoder

21 days of building and grinding The_Residency … I came up with an idea, planned it out, and honestly spent most of the time doubting if I could even build it or if it was a good idea worth building. But I built it.

The time came for the final results, and unfortunately, I didn’t make it. I’m not one of the 3 people heading to SF for 3 months to chase their dreams. Out of 181 people competing, the energy was incredible it reminded me just how much I love building.

For now, I’m going to keep working on Xenon, and hopefully it’ll become my first big success. I’ve also been getting a lot of attention on X, from devs to founders, and I’m sure we’re only going up from here.

Thanks for all the love and support.

THE JOURNEY HAS BEGUN 🔥

@selfmadecoder

looks like we made it to the top 20 🔥

@selfmadecoder

It's 3:35 AM… I'm up and ready to get some work done 🔥

@selfmadecoder

Why you should only work remote

- no retirement cut
- no transportation problem ( time and money wise )
- you don't need masters and 10 years to make the money they claim is big for a senior dev
- You're more likely to work in a place that you'll learn a lot a grow.

@selfmadecoder

Yoo chill everyone I don't make much 😁 hoo. But I know people who make a lot of money and I aspire to be like that 😊⚡️ ..

@selfmadecoder

By “remote,” I meant foreign companies. My bad. some of you understood it as only working from home.

@selfmadecoder

Anyway, y’all keep grinding, learning, and building 🔥

@selfmadecoder

Kingdom sound album is out now 🔥

@selfmadecoder

Buy a camera or a good phone with a solid camera… record yourself and dump it into cloud storage like Drive or sth. 10 years from now, you’ll have real history to look back on fr 👌

@selfmadecoder

I don’t wanna be a lot of things, but the one thing I really don’t wanna be is that guy who’s only known for knowing people who made it big while I failed miserably to tell my own story and only ended up telling theirs.

@selfmadecoder

Is this real 😁

@selfmadecoder

#GoToChurch #Churchሂዱ

@selfmadecoder

You can access it here https://book-exchange-one.vercel.app/ I just posted one book there which I really want to swap for some other book. So try it and update me with bugs and feature requests @kalishere

theme of the week 🔥

@selfmadecoder

ChalkNotes
A dev-friendly npm tool that turns your Notion pages into a working Next.js blog with automatic setup detection, theming, and almost zero config.

➡️ The fun part:
It has a plugin system where you can enable extras like comments, reading time, or embeds right inside your Notion page using simple syntax like:

%%YouTube[videoId]

No extra setup, just write it in Notion and it works.

⚠️ Still early days
I’m actively building and tweaking this so things may change. Feedback, ideas, or even feature requests are very welcome.

Check it out: https://chalknotes.vercel.app