I Don't Know How She Does It

There’s a 2011 film with Sarah Jessica Parker in the lead — I Don’t Know How She Does It. Kate Reddy: financier, wife, mother of two. She manages everything. Or creates that impression — until at some point it becomes clear that she, of course, manages nothing at all, and is running purely on willpower, caffeine, and a guilty expression.

People often ask me too: how do you manage it all? What’s the secret?

The secret is very simple: I don’t manage it.

Let’s start with the good news. After several days of procrastination and roughly fifteen minutes of actual work, the bot is finally fixed: device management, connections, user settings and trial access — all running normally. Curtain.

That’s where the useful programming-related activity ends. But on another front — PR, blogging, media — things are fairly packed.

One. I tried to find an artist or designer willing to work on the project’s visual identity. So far, nothing. So I keep writing bare text — no illustrations, no brand style, no nothing.

Two. I made it onto Habr. Spent a week going through moderation — in the end, the article about neural networks was published. Results: 8,500 views, 15 bookmarks, +1 karma point, and one new channel subscriber. Whether those are good numbers — honestly, I’m not sure. I was hoping for better conversion. Well — the start has been made, we’ll keep going.

Three. I decided to build myself a personal website. This is one of the reasons the project has gone quiet on the programming front. I hate painting buttons and all that — but it has to be done. It drains an enormous amount of energy and takes up a surprisingly large amount of time.

Four. I resurrected one of the projects I was working on last autumn: I want to build a web version of the Rustlings console application — a learning tool for Rust fundamentals.

How do I manage all this?

It’s all about agents. But that’s a separate, detailed topic. I have a long post planned on this, or possibly a series for Habr. The material is mostly ready, just needs a bit of editing. I think it’ll go out around April 1st.