A Supermarket Bag and a Truckload of FOMO
Published on: 2025-05-10 04:10:32
A Supermarket Bag And a Truckload Of FOMO
The day was nearing to a close. The sun has already set, but that Friday evening in Amsterdam was still warm. Unusually warm, in fact, for those late days in March – as if spring decided to bless my piligrimage, for that piligrimage was not jovial.
I was sitting at a ramen joint, sipping on the broth. To my left, a blue, crinkled supermarket shopping bag was sitting solemnly, inconspicuously.
Inside that bag sat a slightly used Mac Studio, which I have just purchased to be able to edit CSS of my own application.
By the time that evening descended upon the south of Amsterdam, I have lost 3 days of my life trying to figure out why I was unable to edit CSS.
But let me rewind a bit.
Act 1: It starts with an app
I tend to listen to people. So when the time came to start a new app - which I haven’t done in quite some time - I knew that I would like it to be modern enough. Modern enough, even, for me to be able to delegate some work on it to ot
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