Code. Compile. Stir. Why I Started Making Cocktails After Work

As a developer, I live in a loop:
Wake up → Code → Fix bugs → Repeat.

Somewhere between the fifth coffee and the 11 PM Git push, I realized I was losing something — not motivation exactly, but rhythm. The kind of rhythm that gives your day a shape, a start, a close.

That's when I found cocktails.

Not the boozy blur of weekend bar crawls. I mean the precise, beautiful, analog act of making a single cocktail at home. Shaking, stirring, pouring — it felt almost like writing clean, modular code.

I started with a Negroni. Three ingredients. Easy to remember, hard to mess up. The process felt calming. No Slack, no Jira, no pings. Just a glass, a bar spoon, and five quiet minutes.

Now it's become my shutdown ritual. Some people journal. Some meditate. I stir.

I found most of my inspiration on mycocktailrecipes.com — a simple site with solid, no-BS recipes that don’t ask for 12 ingredients and an absinthe rinse. Just classics, modern favorites, and the kind of drinks even a backend dev can make after a long sprint.

So here’s to rituals that make us human.
To clean syntax. And clean drinks. 🍸