we take those Ws

I failed the challenge, but I’m a better dev than I was 39 days ago.
That’s a W.
#100DaysOfCode might be over.
But the grind isn’t.

What’s next?
Still coding.
Still building.
Still figuring shit out.
No promises, no pressure—just vibes and work, whenever it happens.

If I had to give advice to future me (or you):

Still, I learned a lot.
Learned that discipline isn’t about never slipping—
It’s about returning.
Even when I didn’t post, or felt off—I knew I wanted to come back. That matters.

But yeah—burnout crept in.
The dev loop started to feel like a damn treadmill:
Build Django view → hook it up on frontend → repeat.
Monotonous as hell.

There were wins.
I won two hackathons.
Set up Arch on my machine.
Learned Django backend from scratch.
Even shipped parts of a fullstack project.
That ain’t nothing.

Some days, I was on fire.
Across the 39 days I did code, I joined hackathons, tackled tech events, and tried out a bunch of different domains.
It was fun as hell, and I learnt a lot along the way.

I joined ‘cause a friend was doing it.
And I was like, damn—I need a side quest right now.
Gotta do some shit, build some shit, stay busy.
So I dove in.

Started the challenge thinking I’d come out the other side a machine.
I didn’t.
I skipped days. Missed weeks.
But I still walked away with a shitload of learnings—some about code, some about myself.
This thread’s about that.