Eyji Koike Cuff weekly digest 🧭 (Week of Jun 1st, 2025)
Hey friends 👋
Here’s your weekly roundup of posts, ideas, and dev reflections from my corner of the internet. Whether you're deep in code or working remotely from somewhere new, I hope this helps you start your Monday with momentum 🚀
✨ New posts from last week
📝 Field note - When I almost over-engineered a header generator
Sometimes, getting lost with clever solutions for the wrong problems is easy. We need to stop and remember:
"Build the thing you will need to maintain"
→ Read the full post (3 min)
🇺🇾 Remote work in Uruguay
Not a glamourous hack or anything as such, just a real story about exploring another country and staying focused on your deliviries no matter the situation
→ Read the full post (3 min)
🔍 Dev Nuggets
Small insights, big value:
- 🧠 Sometimes we need to slow ourselves and think how can I deliver more value with less. What trade-offs simplicity can bring to the table.
📖 Quote of the week
The quote of the week is from the WRC champion Michèle Mouton a.k.a. Queen of speed. When the frenchwomen was asked how did she feel as the start time approached, she fiercely answered:
”I don't feel at all.”
→ More on Michèle (2 min)
🔮 What’s Coming Next
Here’s what I’m working on this week:
- io language – gosh these prototypes
- How to use set to compare your python lists and retrieve unique values
- 1 week working remotely from Rio 🇧🇷.
Thanks for reading — and feel free to hit reply if something resonates, or if you just want to say hey.
Have a great week 🌍
— Eyji
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