Monday vibes

Happy Sunday to all

Standing up, music on, body moving — that’s where coding turns into flow. Blood’s pumping, the brain stays sharp, and ideas stop getting stuck in your head. The rhythm keeps your hands moving, the movement shakes loose overthinking, and suddenly you’re building instead of debating. No chair, no slump, no doom-refactoring — just momentum. Good code doesn’t always come from stillness; sometimes it comes from dancing with the problem until it clicks.

GM to my beautiful guys

The Swiss railway system is famous for its precision, but its reliability is not a cultural accident. It comes from a design philosophy known as the Taktfahrplan—a rhythmic timetable in which trains across the entire country run in repeating cycles, typically every thirty minutes. Introduced nationally in 1982 under the Bahn 2000 project, the Taktfahrplan synchronizes arrivals and departures at key network nodes. When trains from different directions meet at the same minute, passengers can transfer with minimal waiting. This predictable cadence turns a geographically complex rail network into a coherent, clock-like system. Bitcoin, invented nearly three decades later, was created for a radically different domain. Its ten-minute block interval was not designed for passenger coordination but for global decentralization and controlled monetary issuance. Still, the rhythm of Bitcoin’s blocks plays a similar role: it imposes order on a distributed, adversarial network. Miners around the world compete to add blocks, and although any individual block can take one or forty minutes to arrive, the average remains anchored around ten minutes thanks to the difficulty adjustment. This cadence ensures that new bitcoins enter the economy at a predictable rate and that the blockchain grows in steady, manageable steps. The connection between the Taktfahrplan and Bitcoin is not historical—the Swiss railway engineers did not influence Satoshi Nakamoto. Yet both systems show how regular timing can create stability in complex, decentralized environments. In the Swiss network, cadence enables seamless human coordination; in Bitcoin, cadence enables trustless digital consensus. Trains and blocks operate in different worlds, but both remind us that rhythm is a powerful form of order.

I didn’t notice the day the internet stopped feeling like home. It happened slowly, like dust gathering on a shelf. Harmless at first, then thick enough to choke. At some point, every corner of the digital world began to feel… processed. The articles were polished in the same metallic voice, the videos moved with that same non-human rhythm, even the chats echoed with a strange emptiness, as if the words had a hollow center. I kept scrolling anyway. Out of habit, mostly. Until one morning, I opened my messages and realized I couldn’t tell which of my friends were real anymore. Some replied too fast, some too perfectly, and some had stopped messaging altogether, replaced by “assistants” that kept the conversations alive like artificial life support. And I felt something new: not fear. Fatigue. Games didn’t save me either. I used to escape into them, but now every lobby was infested with flawless players who never blinked, never missed. AI companions filled the rest. Even the griefers were automated. I remember staring at my screen after losing to "HappyLemon247” and thinking: What am I even doing here? The breaking point came a few weeks later. I was walking home when I saw a group of kids playing football in the street. Just kicking a worn-out ball, shouting, laughing, tripping over each other. Inefficient, unoptimized, beautifully chaotic. None of it was recorded. None of it was streamed. None of it was designed to keep anyone engaged. I stood there longer than I should have, watching. And I realized: I missed this. Not the game, the aliveness. That night, I turned off all my devices. Not out of anger. Not out of some dramatic rejection of society. I just wanted silence. Real silence. The kind that isn’t interrupted by suggestions or reminders or algorithmic nudges. For the first time in years, I slept as if someone had switched off a light behind my eyes. The next morning, I didn’t turn anything back on. Day after day, more people started disappearing from the feeds. My favorite creators posted farewell notes. Friends deleted their accounts. Even the bots seemed confused, endlessly recommending content that nobody was there to watch. And strangely, the world outside got louder. Markets, parks, little cafés. Full again. People talking, touching, arguing, laughing. As if a fog had lifted. Sometimes I still think about the old internet. The early one. The human one. Before it became a glittering, infinite mirror reflecting nothing back. But I don’t miss it anymore. Now, when I want to feel connected, I go outside, sit in the sun, and watch the street fill with life that no algorithm could ever simulate. For the first time since I was a kid, I feel present. Not logged in. Alive.

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