April 2026

Side projects, Easter, and early mornings.

Work gave me an amazing performance review. No raise. Classic. Made me think harder about the side stuff.

April was a productive month on that front, mixed with some real doubt. On April 9th I wrote this down: "Thinking if I should continue trying to build something on the side or just take a better job and focus on the money." Haven't fully answered that yet.

What I did do: automated more of stuff for r......photos** — scripts to sort incoming emails by priority, setup to run prompts and image generations automatically, started contacting leads directly through WA Messages. Also kicked off robot-seo-posts, a new project for automated SEO content. And started seriously thinking about whether r......photos is a product anyone actually wants or just something I want to exist.

Easter was good — 5 days of proper rest, church, friends over for brunch, house spring clean, ate a dumb 1000 calories pizza, read Derek Sivers' old blog posts. Needed it.

Also test drove a Tesla Model Y. Not impressed. Stiff and fat. Not the car I imagined.

Car saga continues — took it in for service, came back 500$ lighter. Hope the fix holds.

I've been waking up earlier consistently this month. 5:30 AM few days, 7 AM most others. Trying to protect the morning for side work before the day swallows everything.

Health was solid — 10+ gym sessions, two runs, sauna and cold shower, stopped sugar and late-night orders.

By the Numbers

• 1 book read
• 10+ gym sessions
• 2 runs (~12km total)
• ~0 Netflix hours
• 5 days Easter break
• 500$ lei car repair
• 1 new project started

Thank you April 2026. Yes, yes, we are still early.