[HN Gopher] Reflections on ten years of LLVM Weekly
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       Reflections on ten years of LLVM Weekly
        
       Author : huijzer
       Score  : 29 points
       Date   : 2024-01-02 07:47 UTC (1 days ago)
        
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       | simonw wrote:
       | > "The unbroken streak of LLVM Weekly editions each Monday has
       | become a bit totemic. It's certainly not always convenient having
       | this fixed commitment, but it can also be nice to have this
       | rhythm to the week. Even if it's a bad week, at least it's
       | something in the bag that people seem to appreciate. Falling into
       | bad habits and frequently missing weeks would be good for nobody,
       | but I suspect that a schedule that allowed the odd break now and
       | then would be just fine."
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       | Fun coincidence: this 10 year LLVM Weekly every Monday streak
       | almost exactly aligns with Tom Scott's just-completed 10 year
       | streak of publishing a new YouTube video every Monday at 4pm. I
       | wrote about that here:
       | https://simonwillison.net/2024/Jan/2/escalating-streaks/
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       | Streak psychology is a complicated thing. Tom Scott's story
       | taught me that a useful characteristic of streaks might be to
       | have a defined end for them - it's OK to deliberately break them
       | when you've hit a milestone, and in fact it's probably healthier
       | than trying to run them forever!
        
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