Day -1: It begins, now. I'm trying an experiment for the next 30 days starting tomorrow.
The goal is simple. I will exclusively do things that I don't want to.
It feels like I am hardstuck in life, and if I change nothing, nothing will change.
Posts from @toxdes.com on bsky.social as a blog
April 18, 2026
I'll post an update before I sleep, every day for the next 30 days.
April 19, 2026
Day 0: Beginnings are always easy. Already down to doing 3 things I did not want to do:
1. wake up at 5am, only slept for like 5 hours, but it's all good.
2. 7500 steps morning walk, didn't want to do a lot in 1 day.
3. "post" on social media
will post again at EOD, let's go!
Alright, quite a day today. Turns out it's not that easy. Here's what I did well, and things where I'm still failing:
1/3
Good -
1. Resisted temptation to eat junk food
2. Decided to finally read through ropes paper and write a basic implementation of it.
3. Successfully posted this update.
4. Figured out a plan for better health, hopefully I stick to it.
2/3
Bad-
1. Couldn't stop idling the entire afternoon and evening.
2. Still wasting an unhealthy amount of time on YouTube and twitch.
So the goal for tomorrow is to not repeat these again.
That's all, good night!
3/3
April 20, 2026
Day1: woke up a little late, 7700 steps morning walk done. And this is the post. I think I will do one new extra thing I didn't want to do today.
Will post about it again at EOD, let's go!
Alright, I still couldn't figure out how to fix bad points from the last day. One more day lost in idling.
I need to do something about it way quicker.
Night.
April 21, 2026
Day2: slept late last night, so woke up late (6:30am), completed 7300 steps of morning walk. The days have been tiring, after a year of averaging at most 100 steps a day like radiant couch potato, this is a significant jump in physical activity. Goal is to get to 10K/day soon.
I'm still not able to figure out how to make afternoons productive, I feel really tired, and keep idling. I also don't have answers on how I can reduce twitch/youtube. These ones are more addictive, so will require more work to resist against. Hm, let's see. I'll post again at the EOD.
Okay, here's some progress. I managed to not idle this afternoon and evening. I went down the rabbit hole of how strings are internally implemented in various JS engines, since I am writing a blog post about ropes data structure.
I still felt tired in the afternoon but instead of taking a nap, I took a coffee and forced myself to resist for a while just to see how impossible it is. Now I have to do this again, and again, and a bunch of other times after that.
Night!
April 22, 2026
Day3: apparently my sleep is adapting to 2330 to 0630 now, which is a good thing. I woke up at around 6:30am today, and completed 7724 steps of morning walk. Now on to solving the daily LC problem, and then finishing up the blog post.
I also need to find and buy some affordable AI sub, I ran out of the cheaper zai's GLM coding plan. Let's see. Will post again at EOD.
EOD update -
I was able to not idle today's afternoon/evening/night. I'm almost finished with my blog post about rope strings, and I also refactored my website's. No visual changes, it was code-refactor. Took a bit of time, it's 12 am, so I'll probably wake up late tomorrow (i mean today.)
April 23, 2026
Day4: Another day, woke up at 6:30 am, and completed 8542 steps today because I was feeling it. That's ~1.5k surplus from my goal, yay!
The goal for today is to finish the daily LC problem, and know more about these buzz words people been throwing around since the past few years: MCPs, Agents, RAG and what not. Let's see how it goes.
EOD update: I have published a new post on my website: toxdes.com/blog/l-ropes...
completed the daily LC problem, for the past couple of days the problems were medium but were really impl heavy, but mediums are always easy so not really worried.
Also tweaked my website a bit more today after finding out `acumin-pro` is rendered horribly differently in firefox and in chrome. Check screenshots for side by side comparison.
I wanted the behavior of Firefox(left), and thought maybe I'm missing some CSS magic. There's no magic. I have migrated to a different font that renders similar in Chrome, Firefox and Safari. There's still little differences but it's now mostly similar.
Anyway, couldn't find time to do the AI related things I mentioned in earlier reply. Maybe tomorrow.
Night!
April 24, 2026
Day5: Another day, woke up at 6 am today, and completed 8258 steps again, woohoo! I think 8k will be the new default in a few days. Feeling tired already and the day is not even started. Let's see.
EOD Update: I couldn't resist idling today, felt completely exhausted all day, so not much to share, except the daily LC problem. Need more energy I think. Will need to figure out a way.
Small milestone - 500 problems solved LeetCode. Here's to another 500 in this year? ðŸ«
toxdes.com/stats for most recent.
April 25, 2026
Day6: Another day, woke up at 6 am and completed 8010 steps in the morning walk. Couldn't post earlier in the morning because I think bsky was down. It's almost evening now, and I've been trying to fix the issue of not being able to login to sway from sddm. (rn I login from tty).
Finally fixed my login manager on my linux laptop. I have Ubuntu with KDE Plasma and Sway, and I SDDM couldn't boot into sway was broken. Migrated to LightDM + LightDM-GTK-Greeter, and it's all working correctly now.
For past ~3 months I was doing
-> SDDM
-> press ctrl+alt+f3 for tty
-> enter username
-> enter password
-> start sway
-> Done
Now it's
-> LightDM
-> enter password
-> Done.
As it should've been from the get go.
April 26, 2026
couldn't post yesterday EOD update yestreday, because I was feeling low and down after reading how badly career breaks are treated in India.
Day7: Another day, woke up at 6:30am and completed 7700 steps in the morning walk. That marks 1 successful week for this new framework. Hopefully I get to two digit days now.
Couldn't find time to do LC yesterday, it was a hard problem. I'll probably spend an hour or two to try and solve it today, if not I'll read the editorial and implement.
EOD Update: Today was more productive than expected. I worked on github.com/toxdes/glesha for some time, spent some time watching twitch vods and then some time on my fork of github.com/toxdes/jiotv.... Just solved today's LC, it was standard DFS, and now I'm off to sleep. night.
April 27, 2026
Day8: Another day, woke up at 5am, and slept again until 6am. Completed 8605 steps in the morning walk, because I was feeling like it. Now I've introduced 2 - 100m jogs in between, goal is to get to a 1km non-stop jog. Let's see how it goes.
I think I'll spin up deepseek v4 flash to create a script that backs up these tweets from bsky to either a db or a git repo, maybe have a cron job that runs this script once in 48 hours, and then render them later in a webpage, chronologically, I wish "sort by oldest first" was a thing in bsky.
let's see how it goes. I also want to add "x solved on LC, y solved on codeforces in last month" as a line to toxdes.com/stats, but not sure yet if I have downstream APIs for it.