It’s Monday again. As usual, the streets were crowded and a bit jammed. But the weather’s warmer now, so I got to wear just a shirt to work — it felt great.

This morning I found a new pho spot near the office. The food was pretty good, but what stood out was the owner — super friendly and kind. I instantly liked the place. Might become a regular there.

Once I got to work, the day kicked off with a meeting, followed by some bug hunting. One of them was particularly annoying — it had to do with the client making a verification request to the backend using a code. The issue was, the client sent the request twice. But the code is designed for one-time use and gets deleted after the first request, so the second one obviously failed.

I tried debugging but could only reproduce the bug once — after that, nothing. These types of bugs are the hardest to catch. In the end, I took the easy route: if the code is used a second time, the backend just returns a success response. Harmless and done.

There was another UI bug — half the screen wouldn’t load. I suspected the code since that section has three components, but strangely, the bug doesn’t show up on all machines. Couldn’t debug it, so I just added some logs on the client side for now.

At lunch, I went out with the team and heard stories from when the company first started. Apparently, every dev back then got equity — just 1%, but today that’s worth about $16,000. Damn, I was low-key jealous. But it reminded me of something I really believe: making money isn’t actually that hard — you just have to be brave enough to start.

If you think the same, don’t just think. Do something. Even small ideas are worth trying.

Much love. Catch you later!