Why 365 Commits
Reflecting and looking forward after a year of daily GitHub contributions
Learning as a Serial Monogamist
I tend to do each new-to-me thing for about a year at a time. Lifelong learning is my way. Fun fact: I’ve never owned a TV.
For example, there was the year, when I did all of the then-available Khan Academy Math (~500 lessons). I ‘did math’ every day for a few hours for that entire year. I learned calculus at age 51 — so much joy.
Then there was the year when I delivered technical keynote talks all over the world — in London, Hong Kong, Singapore, Sydney, Vilnius and…I can’t remember where else, so many airplanes, such a long time ago. Actually it was 2017, but given world events in 2020, it seems like a lifetime ago.
What did I do in 2020? I committed, that is made at least one contribution to open source on GitHub every day. On my birthday? Yes. On Christmas while in the North Woods? Yes. From the GitHub mobile app (if I didn’t have my laptop)? Yes. I pushed one or more commits to GitHub every day for 365 consecutive days, with nearly 2,000 contributions in total. The green graph of my activity is shown below.
