Breaking the Ice
After three months of “vacation,” I’ve built 54 projects — nearly one every other day. Exhausted yet inspired, I just finished a powerful sitemap generator soon to be open-source. Creating and sharing — that’s what drives me.
Well, I guess it’s finally time to break the ice. It’s been three months since I’ve been officially “on vacation” — and yet, during this time, I’ve managed to dive headfirst into 54 different projects. That’s almost one project every other day.
Even though I call this period a vacation, the truth is that I’ve probably worked harder than ever before. I spent countless nights awake, completely absorbed in the pursuit of perfection — trying to push certain pieces of software to their limits, mastering new programming languages, and exploring areas of knowledge that fascinated me. The result? I’m completely exhausted.
Still, the experience was immensely rewarding. Many of those projects brought in a surprising amount of attention — some GitHub stars, quite a few emails (which I may or may not have replied to 😅), and a fair share of mental fatigue.
I won’t list all the projects here (some were already summarized in previous posts), but I do want to highlight the one I finished this morning — and hopefully, the last one for this year.
It’s a sitemap generator, built entirely from scratch. It’s not public on GitHub yet, but it will be soon. To give you an idea of the scale: I currently spend around $50 a month for each of my five platforms, totaling about $1,345 BRL per month — for services that do only about a third of what my tool can accomplish. The version I built is capable of reaching levels of depth and precision that are hard to even describe.
Soon, it will be open-source — free for anyone to use, learn from, or build upon.
Because at the end of the day, that’s what drives me: creating things that push boundaries and sharing them with the world.
