Commit to consistency

Why I did 1 commit per day, for 81 days on Github

I didn’t ship much in 2023 and decided in October to play catch up by committing to at least 1 Github commit per day till the end of 2023. I started on 12 Oct 2023, so by the end of 2023, that’s 81 days of coding and shipping:

And in these 81 days:

• I shipped 3 products – PSI.SG, ListsKit.com, and a revamped KetoListSingapore.com

• Created 5 new repositories

• Made 385 commits, with 87 for PSI.SG and the rest for Lists Kit

• Totalling 19,438 lines of code committed

F**king hell that’s an impressive shit tonne of work done!

Half way through, I remembered I was surprised by the challenge, how I underestimated one small commit a day, despite being no stranger to streaks. With numbers like this, I’m even more surprised now.

Damn, now I’m thinking why I didn’t try this earlier, since I’m well aware that I’m really good with streak mechanisms! Imagine how much I would have shipped if I decided to do this at the start of 2023~!

WILD 🤯

Which bring me back to one of the biggest lessons I learned this year, about accepting my season. I think with my household situation, family commitments, daily schedules, lifestyle rhythms, new roles as husband, dad and son, being sole provider, doing consulting and all, I’m in a season of life where I can’t bank on old habits and measure myself on past benchmarks. I can’t ship fast, but I can ship smooth and slow. I can’t leverage on short bursts of intensity, but I can do sure and steady releases of consistency. I can’t launch a project over a weekend, but I can fill an ocean a pebble a day, over days and weeks of embarrassingly small effort.

Both work. Both gets results. It’s not that intensity is better than consistency, nor vice versa.

But now I see for myself how my season had shifted to the latter. And I should just accept that, embrace that.

Onwards to more consistent shipping in 2024!

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