Commit everyday
I’m a software engineer by profession and I write and commit code almost everyday. Its all work related though and not publicly visible. Don’t get me wrong, I enjoy the work, but I feel I haven’t been able to give enough time to some of the side projects I’d like to work on / contribute to. I’m starting to miss that. Hence I’m hoping to enforce a set of rules that will nudge me more in that direction .. At least I hope they do.
The rules are simple, and actually inspired by John Resig’s blog post on Write Code Every Day:
I need to make a commit everyday (not just limited to code, but blog post or writing docs would qualify as well)
The change must be open source and on Github
I’m testing the water with these rules. I hope to revisit this track in a few weeks (I’m hoping end of January 2015) and make adjustments at that point.
I don’t have a target in mind on where I want this experiment to go. I might end up writing more blog posts with these rules, or maybe start to contribute to an open source project. I might even try and cheat my way through this by making change to my own dotfiles (hopefully it doesn’t come to that). In any case, I’m sure the introspection will be an interesting one for me.
Just as a reference, here’s what my current github public contribution graph looks like:
It’s going to fill up with green blocks for sure, but I hope the green is meaningful!
To be continued …
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