31 minutes of me deleting my side projects
My workspace is a mess, so I audited all 116 folders in it one by one and deleted things. 66 git repos, 48 plain folders, 29 of them touched in the last 7 days, 9 with work that never made it to GitHub, 31 with uncommitted files. I don't make a repo for everything, because most of this stuff is a spin-up, a look, and a delete.
Some things I deleted: docker prune, old experiment folders, the boot game, snail gen and its sibling snails, an old UX principles experiment, a few hackathon repos. Not everything needs to be kept. Some things I kept: Mustardy (0 stars, I use it every day), the language tutor app that pings my watch, team-vibecoding, the Pac-Man/broccoli game my kids vibe coded themselves, and vibe gardening, which I've wanted to build for 10 years.
The point: the easier it is to generate stuff, the more work goes into making sure it goes in the right place. Ideas lab was a project I made to keep agentic work organised, and it failed. There's just something about AI that loves chaos and hates order.