Okay, so I spent some time working on this thing I called ‘simosa’. Just a little project I kicked off myself. Thought it would be a neat little helper for something I was dealing with.
Getting Started
It all started because, honestly, my workflow felt clunky. I was doing this one repetitive task over and over again, manually shuffling bits of data between different places. You know how it is. Tedious. So I thought, why not try and automate this? Make a little tool. That was the birth of ‘simosa’.
Fired up my usual setup, got the basic framework going. The initial part felt pretty straightforward. Reading some inputs, doing a basic transformation. Felt good, like I was making progress.
Hitting the Snags
But then, things got tricky. The core logic, the part that was supposed to be the ‘smart’ bit of ‘simosa’, turned out way harder than I thought. I went down one path, coded for a day or two, then realized it wouldn’t handle certain edge cases. Ugh.
So, I ripped that part out. Started again with a different approach. This time, I tried to integrate it with another tool I sometimes use. Seemed like a good idea, less code for me to write, right? Wrong. compatibility issues popped up. Spent ages just trying to get them talking to each other properly. More frustration.
- Tried reading the documentation for that other tool.
- Searched online for examples.
- Even tried tweaking the source code of my ‘simosa’ part to force it.
It felt like patching holes in a sinking boat. Every fix seemed to create another problem somewhere else. It wasn’t smooth at all.
The Turning Point
After banging my head against the wall for a while, I took a step back. Looked at the whole mess. ‘Simosa’ was becoming this complicated beast, trying to do too much. And honestly, the problem wasn’t just the tool. It was also about how I was organizing things in the first place.
That was the key moment. Realizing the tool couldn’t magically fix a messy process. It could only automate the steps I gave it. If the steps themselves were awkward, the automation would be awkward too.
Where It Ended Up
So, I scaled ‘simosa’ way back. Stripped out all the complex, fragile parts. Made it do just one simple, reliable thing based on a very clear rule. No more trying to be clever.
And you know what? It works much better now. It doesn’t solve the whole original grand problem I imagined, but it reliably handles one annoying step. It’s not revolutionary, just a simple utility that saves me a bit of time each day.
Guess the whole ‘simosa’ journey taught me something. Sometimes building the thing shows you the real problem isn’t what you thought it was. And sometimes, simple and dumb is better than complex and broken. Still got the code somewhere. Might revisit it, might not. But the experience was definitely… something.
