So, about this ‘tenisson’ thing I worked on. It really wasn’t meant to be some grand project, you know? Just a little something I cooked up for myself a while back.
I got this itch, right? I needed a way to sort out all my random notes and ideas, specifically for some old hobby projects I had lying around. Stuff I’d jotted down on scraps of paper, digital stickies, everywhere. A real mess. My first thought was, just get organized. Simple.
So, I started by just trying to gather everything. Then I thought, hey, maybe I can build a tiny little tool for this. Just something basic to enter stuff, maybe search it. How hard could it be? Famous last words, as always.
That’s when I veered off track a bit. I decided this would be a good chance to play with some new tech I’d been reading about. Seemed like a cool idea at the time. Honestly, for what ‘tenisson’ was supposed to be, it was total overkill. I spent a good week just getting the basic setup to even run properly. Fiddling with config files, the whole nine yards.
Then I started pulling in bits and pieces. A library for this, a component for that. Before I knew it, my little ‘tenisson’ note-taker was starting to look like it needed its own server rack. I was spending more time trying to make all these fancy parts talk to each other than actually, you know, inputting any of my notes.
The Creep of ‘Good Ideas’
And then, oh boy, then came the ‘good ideas’ for features. It always starts innocently enough.
- “It definitely needs a better tagging system than just keywords.”
- “What if I could link related notes visually? That’d be neat.”
- “Maybe some kind of progress tracker for each idea?”
- “Ooh, and cloud sync! Across all my devices!”
Each one sounded like a fantastic addition on paper. But bolting them all onto my initially simple ‘tenisson’ framework? The thing started to buckle. I remember one entire Saturday I was just trying to fix a bug where adding a new tag would sometimes wipe out the note content. Pure frustration.
The real kicker was, I was building this incredibly complex machine, and my actual need was still just to jot down a few lines of text and find them later. I was basically trying to use a sledgehammer to crack a nut, and a very small nut at that.
After wrestling with ‘tenisson’ for what felt like ages, probably a few solid months of tinkering in my spare time, I just kind of… walked away from it. It became more of a chore than a help. The original, simple purpose? Completely buried under layers of my own supposed ‘improvements’.
So, What Became of ‘Tenisson’?
Well, ‘tenisson’ mostly exists now as a collection of files tucked away on an old backup drive. It’s more of a cautionary tale for myself than anything useful. A digital monument to how easy it is to overcomplicate things if you’re not careful.
Every now and then, I stumble across that folder. I might peek at some of the code I wrote, shake my head a little, and wonder what on earth I was thinking trying to make it do all that. But, you know, that’s how you learn, I suppose. Or at least, that’s how you accumulate experiences.
These days, if I’ve got a random idea? I grab a pen and a notebook. Or, if I’m feeling particularly high-tech, I open up a basic text editor. Does the job. No fuss, no wrestling with a system that’s too clever for its own good, and certainly too clever for mine at the time.
So, that’s the story of my ‘tenisson’ experiment. Not exactly a shining success story, but it was definitely a process. It certainly kept me occupied and maybe, just maybe, taught me a little something about the beauty of keeping things straightforward. Even if I still forget that lesson from time to time.