Headphones on. Playlist: synthwave or rain sounds. Distractions: muted. Hareniks enters what he calls “the tunnel” — a state where time dissolves and only the logic remains. Git commits pile up like trophies.
This is also when Hareniks reviews the holy trinity: calendar, to-do list, and the growing pile of unread messages labeled “reply later” (which is now threatening to become “reply never”). Mornings are for building. No meetings before 11 AM if Hareniks can help it. This three-hour stretch is when features take shape, bugs meet their end, and the satisfying click of a solved problem echoes through the room. a day in the life of hareniks
Morning ritual: water first, phone second (but only to check if any server went down overnight). No doomscrolling. Just a quick pulse-check on the digital world before the day swallows him whole. Breakfast is utilitarian but not joyless. Oatmeal with a reckless amount of blueberries, or two eggs scrambled with whatever cheese survived the week. Coffee is non-negotiable — black, strong, and consumed while staring at a terminal window that hasn’t done anything wrong yet. Headphones on
The evening is sacred. Cooking (experimental but edible), reading (physical books only, to escape screens), or getting lost in a video game that has nothing to do with software. This is when the best (and worst) ideas arrive. Lying in bed, half-asleep, Hareniks will suddenly grasp the solution to that bug he abandoned at 5 PM. Or conceive a side project that seems brilliant at midnight but questionable by dawn. Hareniks enters what he calls “the tunnel” —
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