December 28, 2025 · 3 min read
2025 really seemed like a very long time. or should i say "seems", as we are still in 2025. truthfully, i signed out of this year (work-wise) since the day makesales went live. i toiled on the project as i was working on both the vendor and customer portals in tandem and had hoped that the day we finally go live, i'd be so fulfilled and sit, sip [redacted] and watch it all bloom.
hehehe, the joke of the century.
on december 5th, we did a pilot test at the office and we found bugs here and there. i would go on to spend that weekend writing even more code. in hindsight, i find that weird as there wasn't anyone who was going to test whether or not the new code works as expected and isn't breaking something, somewhere.
then, came monday, december 8th. we went live. i felt nothing. or wait, i felt the void, the silence & the burnout deep inside my soul.
i had worked this year like i never have at any point in my life. i worked day and night, not because i had to, but because i enjoyed it. it was an escape and if you know anything about flow, you'd understand how that felt.
i worked on several other projects during the course of the year, heck i was developing monieswitch's mobile app (which didn't make it past my laptop), monieswitch's partner portal, [redacted]'s asset management portal, the [redacted] sdk, tagserver, klayed (this one feels like a lifetime ago, maybe last year really).
how makesales took another turn from the initial concept from what it was going to be from the start is a story for another day. i was excited, i was pumped, i was ready to build something that would go on to become great in nigeria, and who knows, outside nigeria. i'm still excited, still super-pumped for what's to come.
there is one thing the process taught me, you see that end you have in mind, one where everything is done and you finally feel relieved, that end is never the end and it will never ever come. there is always something more to do, something more to build, something more to fix, something more to improve upon.
so here i am, on december 28th, after several deletions and drafts that are not making it to "prod", writing this article, reflecting on the year that has been and looking forward to the year that is to come. i am holding on to the lesson that work is not just about the end result, but about the process.
i'm going to the new year really pumped and excited for my sidequests, this blog that i have decided to mount on my test portfolio, and other projects i have in mind.
to you reading this, i hope you find meaning in your work, i hope you find flow in what you do, and i hope you find balance in your life. here's to a great 2025 and an even better 2026!