Devlog 1: Trial and error will be the end of me

This page took almost three hours and somehow none of that time was spent writing code. I mean- it was.. BUT YOU GET MY POINT. The hardest part wasn’t building it. It was deciding what it should even look like. I went through idea after idea, scrapped most of them then spent way too long trying to imagine the layout in my head. How much space should there be between sections? Is this too empty? Too crowded?

The funny part is that I wanted this site to feel like one of my real notebooks. Except my real notebooks look like they survived a natural disaster. They’re full of arrows pointing nowhere, thoughts squeezed into the margins, things crossed out three times and random ideas that only make sense because I wrote them. Turns out translating that into a website without making it look completely chaotic is… surprisingly DIFFICULT! GRRAAHH

Every project reminds me of the same thing. Starting is the hardest part. Finding a direction, committing to a design and figuring out the layout and spacing always takes me longer than writing the code itself. Eventually something clicks. Until then, it’s mostly moving things around, staring at them, moving them back and pretending it’s part of the process, ay i mean it kinda IS part of the process! ANYWAYS, as i was saying- trial and error is genuinely going to be the end of me one day.