Most side projects don’t start with inspiration. They start with irritation. A repeated task. A broken workflow. A problem you keep telling yourself you’ll “fix later.” That’s how all of mine started. Not with a grand plan. Just friction I couldn’t ignore anymore. 1. TermiCool — Because Terminal Customization Shouldn’t Feel Like Surgery Customizing my terminal was taking way more time than it should. Editing config files. Hunting hex codes. Tweaking themes. Accidentally breaking everything. Something that should take 30 seconds was eating hours. I wanted: one click to apply a theme one click to undo it zero risk of breaking my setup So I built TermiCool . Simple, fast, reversible terminal theming without the usual pain. 2. TreePress — Because PDF Export Shouldn’t Destroy Your Work Exporting to PDF was worse. Code lost syntax highlighting. Markdown lost formatting. HTML dashboards broke completely. And tabs? Especially painful. PDF has no concept of tabs, so content hidden behind tabs would simply disappear.…