“These are the hardest problems humans have every solved in engineering.” – gorklon rust.

I think about this quote by Elon Musk often. I don’t know what it really means, though. I can’t imagine the problems they face at SpaceX. I struggle just to push my 200-pound galvanized steel Feldenkrais table a few inches. I can’t begin to imagine what it takes to push 5,000 metric tons of steel into orbit.

Furthermore, I often think of a quote by Jony Ive, the former Apple lead designer. He said something similar, that they had to solve incredibly hard design problems. And in the end, Apple product users don’t even know that there was anything to solve, because the seemingly simple solution doesn’t show the complexity of the original problem.

A friend once told me to always compare yourself up, never down. Always strive upwards, always reach for the stars. I guess that’s what I’m doing here. Anyways, what I wanted to share is this:

After having pushed pixels around for what doesn’t seem like days, but, like, forever, and then some, and having thought long and hard about how to solve this-and-that problem during several long walks and showers, I finally came up with a design I can agree with.

Looking very much forward to the final implementation, so that I can start using it myself. Not so much looking forward to the implementation work itself; I start to feel tired of day-in-day-out software engineering. On the upside, the vibe coding part of it is quite fun. For once, I’m the one who knocks, lol…