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I Saved 2 Hours a Week by Automating My Changelog — Here's Exactly How
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I Saved 2 Hours a Week by Automating My Changelog — Here's Exactly How

DEV Community·shiplog-bot·about 1 month ago
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Last Tuesday, I spent 45 minutes staring at a spreadsheet of commit messages trying to turn "fix: prevent undefined refs in memo" into something a human would actually want to read. That was the moment I realized I'd been doing changelog work wrong for three years. I'm not talking about minor annoyance—I'm talking about the slow bleed of context-switching that kills momentum. Every Friday, I'd context-switch from shipping features into "changelog mode," where I'd hunt through 30-50 commits, decode abbreviations, figure out what actually mattered to users vs. what was internal scaffolding, and then rewrite everything in three different voices so different stakeholders could understand it. Two hours. Every. Single. Week. That's roughly 100 hours a year I wasn't building, debugging, or thinking clearly. So I built something to fix it: Proseflow .…

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