I Thought These Were Supposed to be Weekly?

Hello. It’s been a while. If you’ve been following these updates, you may have noticed that this is the first one for a few weeks. It was inevitable that I would miss a post eventually, but when it happened it was two in a row, and much sooner than I had expected – I had hoped to get further than mid-February!

The reason, embarrassingly, is that I was on holiday. A week in the Scottish Highlands with extended family, Friday to Friday, meaning that I was travelling both Fridays when I should have been writing and publishing my updates for the week.

It was poor planning on my part. For all other aspects of my business, I have measures and backups in place to make sure everything continues to work smoothly when I’m away. The weekly updates just got missed – too new, and as they don’t affect clients and are only really important to me, I simply failed to account for them.

It’s surprising how quickly a new habit can die away, and how much more difficult it was to motivate myself to write this week’s post, even after such a short break.

But, as I said in my first post back in January, I’m writing these posts largely for my own benefit, to get into a routine of writing and publishing. A small step which I can later expand into bigger and more ‘meaningful’ things.

So motivate myself I did, and this is the result. Possibly not the world’s most well structured or insightful post, and I’m not sure it shows my organisation skills in a particularly complimentary light, but I’d rather be transparent than hide my mistakes or  smooth them over with a veneer of crawling, LLM-style sycophancy.

There’s a human behind Push to Dev, and I see that as a positive. Sometimes things might be messy, but also personal, and genuinely interested and invested in the work. In this era when everything is AI, I think those are attributes worth valuing.

The moral of the story: habits are hard to form, easy to break, and even harder to get back to once broken. My advice, which I’m trying desperately to follow, is to get back to the routine as soon as possible – the longer you leave it the harder it gets.