Following on from my post on 30th March 2026, I’ve realised how long my personal project list kept growing while nothing ever felt “done”. I kept moving the goal posts, my standards were always higher than my desire to actually ship something.
I’ve always seen myself as someone who follows through, but that never applied to my dev projects. They lived in a loop of endless tweaks and no releases.
The turning point was Taylor Otwell’s Advent of Laravel talk right at the end of the series, where he said “We MUST ship.” Yes, it was great marketing timing with the new Laravel Forge launch, but the message hit me hard.
Maybe it was new‑year momentum, maybe it was wanting to try out the new Forge, or maybe it was finally admitting I had too many “what if” projects gathering dust. What if I’d just released them? I’ll never know, but I didn’t want to keep repeating that pattern anymore.
With Copilot handling the chore‑like tasks, shipping suddenly became easier. In the past few weeks I’ve soft‑launched three real projects and redesigned both my personal and professional sites:
- Whenish — Social events manager
- Evoluna — Personal development tracker
- Atlas Fit — Fitness and nutrition tracker
- Dregozone — Personal site
- Glacial Studio — Client‑facing portfolio
Revisiting these old codebases and finally finishing them has been genuinely fun. It’s shown me how far I’ve come, and I’m certain more completions are on the way.
I’m not saying that these projects are actually finished, there’s so much on the roadmap still, but there is a finished, stable release, for the first time in a very long time and I count that as a big win!
