Restarting weekend tinkering

10k Hours Progress (8.6%)

$10k/mo Progress (27.14%)

// Restarting weekend tinkering

16 August 2025

Did a bit of work on QG after neglecting it for months. Mainly

getting Typesense to work
improve search results display
add back missing icons in admin dashboard (how does something like that even happen...??)

Felt good to get this little bit done; to restart the weekend tinkering momentum.

Earned: $24.12 // Time: 3.0 hours

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About

I built and sold two brick & mortar food businesses between 2006-2019.

Now that I'm semi-retired, I ask myself, "What if I spend 10,000 hours chasing curiosity?"

10k to $10k is a live changelog of my journey to see if ~~following my interests~~ "fvcking around and finding out" can make me $10,000 a month. All while living the slowmad life.

Here's my official first post.

Banner art L-R © Me, Citadel 9, me, me, me.

Inspirations:
Daily blogging - Alex West
Design - JWZ, p0libius
10k Hours - Ryan Kulp

Stats

Journey start: 28 March 2022

Progress logs: 162

∑ Time spent: 859.5 hours (8.6% to 10k)

Avg time/mo: 19.3 hours

∑ Dollars earned: $121,090.29

$/mo: $2,714.28 (27.14% to $10k/m)

$/hour: $140.88