Avoid the sunk costs fallacy - a podcast by Kent C. Dodds

Hey friends, so I was just working on something for the last hour or so and
I got to a point where I decided, you know what this I probably shouldn't
be doing this like it was an optimization basically. I wanted to be able tochange content on my site, so I whether it be a blog post or the about page
or something like that, but not actually trigger a redeploy and I'm using
GitHub actions right now for this site and there are ways that you candetermine okay, what was the last successful deploy?
And what should be the you know what files are changed between thatdeploying this one and if they were only content files then just don't
deploy them. And so, this is absolutely possible and I was working on itand I spent about an hour or so working on this and then I finally decided
hey, you know what?I don't think that I need to worry about this right now. It's an
optimization so what if I'd redeploy on a content only change? Right now,
I'm just trying to create the site in the first place. I'm not I'm barely
even deploying. So yeah, I'm trying to solve a problem that I don't have
and it's very.
Possible that when I'm all finished, I'm gonna switch from GitHub actions
to to Netlify or something completely different and yeah, it just seems tome that this is way premature and I should be working on other things just
to get this site up and going before worrying about you know, am Ideploying unnecessarily?
So yeah, that was just a thought that I wanted to share with you all justmake sure that you when when you realize that what you're doing may or may
not be used.Full and there are other things that you could be doing thatwould be more useful then stop doing what that thing.
And I just made a branch and committed to changes that I made I pushed thatbranch up and so I'll have that code if I ever need it but I I don't think
that I will honestly but in any case I've got it there and I can shift over
to something that can provide more value and more of what I'm looking for.
So anyway, I hope that's helpful to you and I also hope you have a
splendiferous day.

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