First Year in Chronicling Commits

It’s been just over a year since the first commit to the repository that would eventually become Chronicling, initially codenamed “Timber” — a playful, yet admittedly terrible, pun on logging. I used Git Quick Stats to make some little visualisations of the behind the scenes numbers.

The first commit was made on the 31st of January 2023, and 12 months later, I’d made 904 commits and expanded to two new platforms, watchOS and visionOS. The monthly breakdown peaks around app launch in July, and a few months later with the introduction of iOS 17, watchOS 10 and notably interactive widgets. The daily and hourly breakdown simply shows that my indie dev time consistently happens when my little one is asleep!

I spoke about the early days of development with Charlie on Launched. Reflecting on this, if there are any takeaways, I think it is about consistency. Largely motivated by the uncertain amounts of time I get to work on this while juggling parenting and the day job, I try and break down all features into the smallest possible units. Once I have small tasks to work on, I find it much easier to accomplish meaningful work and maintain momentum, even if I only have 10-15 minutes available in a day.

By Month:

	month	sum
	Jan	55	|████
	Feb	89	|███████
	Mar	53	|████
	Apr	130	|███████████
	May	152	|█████████████
	Jun	122	|██████████  <- WWDC '23
	Jul	68	|██████      <- App launched on 7 July
	Aug	45	|████
	Sep	57	|█████       <- iOS 17 launched on 18 Sep
	Oct	71	|██████
	Nov	23	|██
	Dec	28	|██

By Day:

	day	sum
	Mon	94	|████████
	Tue	127	|███████████
	Wed	139	|████████████
	Thu	154	|█████████████
	Fri	130	|███████████
	Sat	136	|████████████
	Sun	113	|██████████

By Hour:

	hour	sum
	00	0	|
	01	2	|
	02	1	|
	03	0	|
	04	0	|
	05	0	|
	06	1	|
	07	0	|
	08	4	|
	09	7	|
	10	10	|
	11	7	|
	12	81	|███████
	13	154	|█████████████
	14	34	|███
	15	14	|█
	16	12	|█
	17	5	|
	18	3	|
	19	22	|█
	20	191	|█████████████████
	21	261	|███████████████████████
	22	82	|███████
	23	2	|