Chocolate chip cookies wouldn't exist without chocolate chips.
2025-09-25
Feat 7 is complete (sort of..). I currently have the Plan page outputting phase dates based off of a user input date. This will be easy to extend to feature and feat date ranges.
Honesty hour: I didn’t write every line of Javascript to get the date calculator working. In fact, I didn’t write most of them. However, the page does what I was hoping it would do so people can plan out a focus and put it in their calendar.
I would be lying if I didn’t say that I’m torn on if this is the right way to go about making more complex (for me) elements of Fifty Feats. However, I feel like it is a net positive for people who will eventually use this. I would love to learn every line and understand it, but if I did that, the ideas that are in my head would never make it to the internet. My main goal is to get the functional aspects of Fifty Feats up and running as fast as I can, and that means using using every tool that’s available to move faster. It feels like how a business owner hires contractors to do tasks that they can’t do themselves or would take too long to complete if they learned them alone.
Leverage. Scale. Speed. Efficiency. All those buzz words come to mind.
Programming in 2025 means something completely different than it did in 2024 or 2020 or however far back you want to go. Anyone could’ve made the Fifty Feats date calculator, and probably would’ve made it faster than I did, but it doesn’t matter. What matters to me is that it now exists.
Can you imagine how many amazing chocolate chip cookies wouldn’t exist if we had to go out and grow sugar cane and cocoa trees, churn butter, or raise egg-laying chickens? The ability to make a great chocolate chip cookie doesn’t depend on making all the ingredients yourself, it’s about combining them together in your own way to produce something that didn’t exist before (or copying that secret family recipe). That’s what makes baking enjoyable.
Does a math problem still have an answer if you solved it with a calculator? Does a steak still make your mouth water if it was cooked on a gas grill? Does the roof over your head still keep the rain out if it was put together with power tools?
In my opinion, the same questions can be asked of programming and web development today. Does a website still help you accomplish your goals if it was built using AI? It sure does. The ability to make a great website no longer depends on your ability to know every line of code. It’s about blending together your ideas in a way that creates something real that didn’t exist before.
Fifty Feats wouldn’t exist without the technologies that are available for anyone to use today. I’m trying to use them in a way that makes something new, and I hope it helps people someday.
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