The Great Sock Refactor
12/27/2025
It's the final weekend of the year, and while most engineers are reviewing codebases or planning Q1 roadmaps, I found myself doing something far more analog: reorganizing my sock drawer.
Yes, really.
There's something oddly satisfying about sorting through mismatched pairs, retiring the threadbare veterans, and rediscovering that one warm woolen pair you thought was lost to the laundry void. It reminded me of refactoring legacy code?tedious, yes, but full of small victories.
As I folded socks by color and texture (don't judge me), I started thinking about how much clutter we accumulate?not just in drawers, but in systems. Old scripts no one uses, cron jobs that run out of habit, config files with mysterious flags. Sometimes, the best optimization is subtraction.
I brewed a strong cup of Kenyan roast and sat down to archive a few personal projects. One of them was a Raspberry Pi-based coffee timer I built in 2018. It never worked quite right, but the logs were hilarious. Apparently, I once tried to trigger a brew cycle with a Slack emoji. Bold move.
Tonight, I'll probably write a small script to track my sock inventory. Not because I need it?but because it's fun. And because even in the quiet moments, the urge to build never really goes away.
Yes, really.
There's something oddly satisfying about sorting through mismatched pairs, retiring the threadbare veterans, and rediscovering that one warm woolen pair you thought was lost to the laundry void. It reminded me of refactoring legacy code?tedious, yes, but full of small victories.
As I folded socks by color and texture (don't judge me), I started thinking about how much clutter we accumulate?not just in drawers, but in systems. Old scripts no one uses, cron jobs that run out of habit, config files with mysterious flags. Sometimes, the best optimization is subtraction.
I brewed a strong cup of Kenyan roast and sat down to archive a few personal projects. One of them was a Raspberry Pi-based coffee timer I built in 2018. It never worked quite right, but the logs were hilarious. Apparently, I once tried to trigger a brew cycle with a Slack emoji. Bold move.
Tonight, I'll probably write a small script to track my sock inventory. Not because I need it?but because it's fun. And because even in the quiet moments, the urge to build never really goes away.
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