Regular interruptions leading to an increase in procrastination!
https://www.theglobeandmail.com/technology/your-smartphone-is-making-you-stupid/article37511900/ (the article is partly fearmongering, but makes some nuanced points)
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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?).

