Dev Log 06.23.2026: Merge Conflicts, a Public Stats Page, and a Plan to Take the Week Back

Random Thoughts from a Restless Mind

Category: Dev Logs

Published On: June 23, 2026

🤓 The Technical: Finally heard back from QA, so the day job had a fresh batch of work waiting on me. Standup ran long - usually it's 10 to 10:30, but today it pushed past 11 because there was a lot on the table. After that I got my PRs submitted and settled into a holding pattern. The one snag was a merge conflict from a couple of PRs that had been sitting out a little too long over the long weekend, but I got it resolved and back on track.

On the personal side, I spent time on the public stats page for accumulatedknowledge.app, my Magic match tracker. I really believe this thing can be useful to people other than me - I'll keep feeding it data for as long as I'm playing Magic, but the value multiplies if other players actually use it, so I'm trying to spruce up that page and make it more enticing. I also kicked around a bot idea: a toggleable Pomodoro/timer widget for the task board that streamers could show, hide, or customize to whatever work-and-break timing they like. And in the downtime, I got back to cataloging cards - the new Frodo deck pieces came in, so I started working those in. Still one land short because it's out of stock, but the deck plays fine without it.

😎 The Atmosphere: Coworking stream, my usual workday body-doubling setup. No Pomodoro structure - I ran that style for a while and it never sat right with me, felt too rigid, and when I asked around, friends were more split on it than I expected. So the vibe is more water-cooler: work happens, talk happens when it happens, and nobody feels like they missed a scheduled hangout. The Commander Discord also got into a great little etymology argument over whether "meta" stands for "most effective tactics available." It does not. It's just the Greek "about" - as in the game about the game.

🐶 The Coworker: Hubert did his usual rotation between the backyard and his own private agenda, then came along to my mom's for dinner and got some exercise out of the deal. Closed the night with a short walk around the block alongside me. Productive day for the both of us.

🙂🙂🙂 The Smiles: Sat down tonight and built out an actual weekly attack plan for the rest of the week - fixed commitments locked in first, the stuff I need to get done, and some fun deliberately mixed in instead of left to chance. It's the first time in a while I've felt like I'm getting ahead of the week instead of just reacting to it, and I want to make it a habit. Taking back the parts of life I can actually control. On top of that, a friend's birthday hits at midnight, and she deserves the world, so I'm just happy she gets to have a day to celebrate and be celebrated. Small thing, good thing.