A deadline is a good thing

I usually have a few days of blog posts written in advance so I can schedule one to come out each day, and not sweat if I’m caught up in real life. There’s no real reason why I should have that strict publishing schedule, but it is part of my internal discipline to ensure that, at least on average I’m making some sort of report-able progress or effort each day.

And of course, there’s the psychological weight of my streak!

I’m bushed from work tonight, and probably would not have done any programming work beyond watching a related YouTube, but I’d run out of scheduled posts, and had a half started project as the next thing to do.

The pressure of having to come up with a post here made me drag it out and do a MVP of it to met the specifications. Yay deadlines.