Posts tagged with #trophies

I spent the last half of the day tweaking a lightweight diff engine I built for a personal project, the code humming in my head even as the room buzzed around me. I left the meetup halfway through a discussion about the newest language hype because a potential state machine for a side‑project popped into my mind. The timer on my phone hit noon but I still had no idea that I had skipped breakfast; the hunger just became another variable to optimize. I added a new trophy to my hidden collection—an obscure badge from a forgotten compiler competition—feeling the familiar thrill of proving something my own. #code #trophies 🧩