So, the name Chavez Fernander popped up the other day. Don’t really follow baseball super closely anymore, but hearing that name kinda threw me back a few years.
It wasn’t really about him specifically, you know? It just reminded me of this phase I went through back then. I remember I was trying to get into coding little side projects. Nothing fancy, just messing around.
My Little Project Phase
I got this idea to build a tiny web thingy. It was supposed to track… well, I don’t even remember what exactly. Maybe stats for some obscure players or something I was interested in at the time. Seemed simple enough in my head.
Here’s how it went down:
- I first spent a weekend just figuring out what tools to even use. Watched a bunch of tutorials online.
- Then I started trying to actually write the code. Man, that was rough. Things kept breaking.
- I’d fix one thing, and two other things would stop working. Standard stuff, I guess.
- I remember staying up late quite a few nights, just staring at the screen, trying to figure out some stupid error message.
My goal was just to have this little personal dashboard. Something basic I could look at. I wasn’t trying to build the next big thing or anything.
Anyway, I plugged away at it for maybe two or three weeks. Got bits and pieces working. It could pull some data, display it in a really ugly table. But it was clunky. Super slow.
The Reality Check
Then life kinda got in the way. Work got busy, had some family stuff come up. That little project just fell by the wayside. I kept telling myself I’d get back to it, finish it up. You know how it goes.
Never did. Found the folder with the code on an old hard drive recently. Looked at it for about five minutes and couldn’t even remember how half of it was supposed to work. It was a real mess, honestly.
So yeah, hearing a name like Chavez Fernander, someone who’s actually out there doing their thing professionally, just kinda brought back that memory of my own little attempt at building something. Didn’t quite work out, but hey, I tried, right? Learned a few things, mostly about how much I didn’t know. It’s funny the things that trigger these old memories.
