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Dean after hours

Dean after hours

I'm Dean, I'm 27, I work in Marketing, and I have no idea how to write code.

What I do have are ideas, a whole bunch of them. They're sitting in my Notes app right now, waiting to be hatched. So the goal is to teach myself, or rather force myself, to give in.

Vibe coding

The next coming of sliced bread. Or so it seems?

Apparently, this vibe coding thing can do just about anything.

This is great news for me. I'm impatient and don't have a lot of time right now to learn a whole new skillset just for fun, so this is what I'm going to do.

I'm going to teach myself vibe coding for the next, let's say 30 days.

Let's set some parameters:

  1. After hours only. This is a personal project on personal time, let's not interfere with work or other personal life activities.
  2. Limit budget. I'm not buying anything that I wouldn't be using for work. Right now I'm already paying for Claude and a few other tools. Any additional purchases must be within a set limit, let's say $20 for the first 30 days. That's the price of American Truck Simulator, which is on sale right now.
  3. No bullshit tutorials. I'm not spending a minute of my evening watching any YouTube tutorial or LinkedIn seminar about this topic. Everyone is trying to sell me something, and to quote Bobby Hill on this: I don't know you.
  4. One real product. I just found this website that tracks how many days since Hank Green last finished a project. That's what I want to do. Commit and finish a project. Have, at the end of this, one real product that I can stop, look at it, and move on. It doesn't have to be 100%. But it has to be real.
  5. This blog. I don't know if I can commit to 30 blogs in 30 days, but I think it'll be important to log things as they happen. At least the bigger milestones. So this blog is one of the parameters.

I like the number 5 more than 4 or 6, so the list stops here.

What happened today

I made this blog, which took around 20 minutes of choosing the right CMS, thinking of a name, picking the color and font (which is subject to change). Old habits die hard, I guess.

I also asked Claude, in general terms, what I should get to make my one real product. It told me to download Cursor, and I did. Then I proceeded to prompt my ORP in, and it spat back something that doesn't look too bad.

I'll document more about the ORP in my next blog.