Day 29, a Holy Week for Christians and our 3rd day of our Passover

April 3, 2026

Day 29, a Holy Week for Christians and our 3rd day of our Passover

    Today is the start of Holy Week, and with it came the collective exhale of a team that has been running on deadlines and caffeine and sheer determination for weeks. We have not yet deployed the system to Vercel, that is still on the list but we made a conscious decision to let that wait. The deployment will happen. The system is ready enough. But our families have been waiting longer.

    There is something grounding about Holy Week that I think a lot of people feel regardless of where they are in life. The Christian country slows down, everything urgent suddenly feels like it can wait a few days, and you remember that the people around you matter more than any project milestone. I needed that reminder today. We all did.

    The past weeks have been genuinely intense. From finalizing designs to coding sprints to branch merges to bug fixes to a presentation with a university dean, we have been moving without much pause. Today I gave myself permission to stop moving and just be present with my family.

    The system will be deployed anytime soon. The bugs will be addressed. The teaching sessions for the office members will begin next week. And whatever challenges come with going live on an actual server with actual users. We will cross the bridge when we get there.

    For now, I am grateful. Grateful for the team, for the progress we have made, and for a few days to breathe before the next chapter begins. We had a quiet prayer tonight for the team's good health and our deployment to go smoothly, for the remaining hours to be enough, and for grace to carry us through whatever is still ahead.

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