Commit Every Day, Blog Every Week

I find it helpful to end the day by defining the first task for the next day of coding. The task needs to be specific and it needs to be quick and easy. I write it on a scrap of paper and leave it on the keyboard.

This gets me into the project with little to no friction and provides a quick accomplishment.

It helps avoid the mind-wandering morning thoughts of "where was I" and "what should I do today".

It's basically the Hemingway hack that's been mentioned plenty of times...

"The best way is always to stop when you are going good and when you know what will happen next. If you do that every day … you will never be stuck. Always stop while you are going good and don’t think about it or worry about it until you start to write the next day. That way your subconscious will work on it all the time. But if you think about it consciously or worry about it you will kill it and your brain will be tired before you start."

Reminds me of Joel’s classic “Fire And Motion” blog post: http://www.joelonsoftware.com/articles/fog0000000339.html

I'm on day 55 of a github streak, and it's been really good for me. It has motivated me to take my main project [0] farther than I would have otherwise, and it has pushed me to improve my overall git workflow.

One thing that might affect my streak is the use of feature branches. I'm a hobbyist-getting-more-serious programmer, and I am just getting away from the lazy habit of pushing every commit to master. But branch commits don't count towards your contributions until you merge them, and I'm not sure how that affects streaks.

That said, if the point is to just make a commit each day and you're not measuring that with a github streak, there's no difficulty. I like these goals; I'm always curious to see if announcements of good intentions like this go anywhere.

[0] - http://introtopython.org

edit: s/commit/merge/

> 'Blog Every Week'

Make sure you use that blog title generator posted to HN few days ago, that'll guarantee you benefit the humankind.

Good luck!

And a suggestion on the design front: if you're going to be generating that much content, make sure your blog is friendly on the eye, constraining your fluid width layout so you get a maximum of 12-15 words/line would be an easy win :)

The "commit every day" part reminds me of this [1].

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6389019

Committing every day is hard. I had a third of a year going, and then, after an intense month of travel, my first day back at home I forgot to commit and broke the streak.

Good luck!

Good luck! If you blog with Jekyll, at least you can easily check off the 'commit' portion for one of the days of each week.

Pushing every day commits to GitHub is easier than writing blog posts every week. But I wish you all the best man! Keep it up.