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I'm forcing myself to get back into blogging and coding regularly, doing at least something every day (https://zahlman.github.io/meta/2024/12/20/todo-finish-todo-l...). (There will probably be family here for Christmas; I'll probably just publish something I wrote ahead of time.)

>Python was famously created as a Christmas break project

I actually haven't heard this story before.

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For me, establishing a sort of routine was the best way to get past the frustration of having multiple lingering unfinished projects/posts. I struggled more with determining when to ship a post rather than getting out what I wanted to say.

For a routine to be helpful, it doesn't have to be as frequent as weekly. I can imagine that turnaround being the source of a new set of anxieties!

I enjoy writing about books and articles I read. Even just putting together lists and some notes at the end of each year helped me organize my thinking tremendously. Here are my recommendations from 2023 [0, 1]; I'm currently cranking out the 2024 lists!

[0] https://bcmullins.github.io/interesting-books-2023/

[1] https://bcmullins.github.io/interesting-articles-2023/

>For a routine to be helpful, it doesn't have to be as frequent as weekly.

I agree, but my experience has been that daily habits are easier to form.

Consider it an early Christmas gift https://www.computerhistory.org/collections/catalog/10273872...

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