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I noticed years ago that if I started by doing everyting correctly (naming my project etc) it would likely be doomed.

After I started letting my projects have the names my IDE assignes until they have proven themselves to be interesting my success rate seems to have increased.

I think this is related to the same underlying thing you describe.

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I'm in the process of writing a some small system which relies on MariaDB as a storage. The thing is what I don't want to use SQL connector on the endpoints, so I need some HTTP intrrface. I vaguely remembered what I did something like that some time ago, but decided to started fresh.

Well, fastforward to the last Monday, I'm a little stuck and it gets me wondering how I managed to solve it (if ever) the last time. A couple of searches later I found out what I wrote a 'proper' REST-like API wrapper, with OpenAPI, the proper HTTP response codes and whatever... just a year ago. Yet I spent so much time on it I didn't even used it anywhere and subsequently forgot about it.

I’ve found the opposite work for me. Finding silly pun names early greatly improves the chances of me finishing it.

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