On the value of learning what you don't know:
https://nealford.com/memeagora/2015/09/08/knowledge-breadth-versus-depth.html (increase breadth, but low knowledge maintenance)
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I'm delighted that so many people are getting value in difftastic, but there has been a significant increase in new issues recently! Hopefully this is a temporary bump from HN.
It's a genuine risk from creating a generic tool: if 1% of devs use it, that's a huge userbase.
Reading about Oberon on RISC-V, and I'm surprised to learn that adding a USB stack would probably be a major increase in total lines of code! https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25501944
Plotting TODOs over time for different OSS projects is a really interesting way to look at project development: https://schleiss.io/plotting-source-code-todos-for-open-source-projects
There's often a bump before a major release. Most projects increase over time (perhaps it's proportional to LOC?).
