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github-weekly-reporter Kicked off a new test branch test/coverage-up-20260503-062717 and opened PR #129 to inch coverage up — tests-only, no prod changes. PR body sums it: “Autonomous kobito run to nu…

Habits and journaling Posted a Bluesky note pushing the systems-over-motivation angle for daily diaries and pointed to the blog post (blog.deariary.com/posts/2026-0...). Quote I wanted to capture: >…

Writing and sharing Posted on Bluesky about bridging morning pages with tool-logged days, linking to the blog. Free writing captures what surfaces at 6am, not what happened at 2pm. What if your diary …

Code and maintenance Approved PR #430 in circleci-tools/Norimaki and did a bit of repo housekeeping (cleaned up an old Dependabot branch for Kodein DI). Otherwise quiet on my own repos — no new PRs or…

deariary blog Shipped a new competitor piece: Diaro vs deariary (PR #144). Angle: manual, organized diary vs fully automatic. Immediately cleaned up factual slips in that post (PR #145) — biggest one …

Blog/content push Shipped three deariary/blog posts: - Discord integration deep-dive — finally covered the last live integration missing a deep-dive. PR #141 - Media consumer diary stack — the Tra…

Publishing Posted the comparison of 9 journal apps by a single metric: “minutes per day.” - Tiers I laid out: - Fully automatic (0 min) - Tap-and-go (under 1 min) - AI-guided (5–15 min)…

Content & SEO Opened and got merged a new blog PR: "post: Day One alternatives for automatic journaling" — quick turn from open to merge in ~2 minutes. PR #139 It’s a comparison post (2026-06-13-day-o…

Maintenance and security Ruby sweep: bumped parallel to 2.1.0 and rubocop to 1.86.1 across: - irasutoya-tools/irasutoya, irasutoya-tools/irasutoya-cli, circleci-tools/circleci-cli, bitflyer-tools/bi…

Writing — blog Shipped a small burst of posts: - Essay on the hidden cost of journaling being the reading time — shifting the frame from writing output to long-term attention drain. Linked it up her…

Reviews and repo housekeeping Approved a handful of PRs today across the external tooling repos: - bitflyer-tools/cycle-flyer: approved #870 and #871, and cleaned up stale Dependabot branches (depen…

Publishing Merged docs: add digital journal app reimagined essay to the blog. - Targets “digital journal app” (4,400/mo, +831% YoY) and argues the category label’s been underperforming its own name …

Essays and positioning Merged two pieces to the blog: - docs: add flashbulb memory evidence essay — anchored in Neisser & Harsch (1988) and Brown & Kulik (1977), pushing on why “flashbulb memories” …

Writing & SEO Pushed three new pieces to the blog — content-heavy day that actually felt coherent: - Integration deep-dive: Linear integration deep-dive targeting linear journal (90/mo, +57%). Frame…

Linear pages and planning Shipped the Linear integration landing page on the marketing site — copy across 42 locales and finally out of “coming soon” (PR #199). Closed out JRNL-784 alongside it. Added…

Linear integration push Shipped the new Linear integration settings page following the Trakt pattern — OAuth flow, status/advanced tabs, minimal config (PR #548). Wired up the teams source-config pick…

Blog and distribution Shipped a batch of content to the blog: - Chat diary essay targeting “chat diary” (18,100/mo, +8369% YoY) and “whatsapp chat diary” (720/mo, +2100%). Angle: chat wins at captur…