I planned to close 3 issues this week. I closed all 3 — on four hours of sleep, starting at 6 AM.
The plan
- Issue #1 — missing tests, packaging discussion (from a community contributor)
- Issue #2 — UI button redesign
- Issue #3 — code optimization in
hck_gpt/
The reality
Tuesday: the schema.org validator destroyed me at 7:42 AM. Wednesday and every day: a 9-hour Żabka shift. Thursday: home at 00:30, four hours' sleep, zero dev time. By Thursday night I'd shipped nothing. All three issues still open.
Friday morning: alarm 6:00 AM, four hours of sleep, coffee — oh yeah. Flow state doesn't ask permission.
What shipped (v1.7.1)
- Issue #1 closed — tests rewritten: 18 cases across 3 files, all on
unittest.mock(zero live dependencies) - Issue #2 closed — process display redesigned (actually readable now), a reusable AnimatedBar component, 3 chart bugs fixed (blank startup screen, filter lag, colours)
- Issue #3 closed — ~130 lines of dead code removed, redundant imports cleaned, module headers standardised
Four hours of sleep works once. Maybe twice if you're lucky. But you can't build a career on sleep debt and lucky flow states. I knew exactly what to do (clear issues, no ambiguity), and flow happened to align with the time I had. That's not a system.
v1.7.2 starts Monday with realistic scope. TURBO Mode builds on this foundation across 1.7.2–1.7.8. Microsoft Store still on track for Q4 2026.
This is the project behind the post. PC Workman is a free, open-source Windows system monitor
with an offline AI assistant - everything described here is real, shipped code.
Download it or read the source.