For the last three months, I have been on maternity leave and preparing for a major change in my life.
I also participated in more than ten hackathons.
I did not plan to enter so many. I wanted to keep learning, build a few ideas, and use this time to challenge myself. Then one project became another, one deadline followed the next, and suddenly I had a collection of things I never expected to finish.
I worked in whatever windows I had. Some sessions produced a complete feature. On other days, progress meant fixing one bug, improving one screen, or finally understanding why an API call was failing.
It was not a perfect routine. It was simply the routine that worked for me.
