
I Built a Journal for Developers Who Don't Journal
Worktale is a CLI tool that reads your git history and turns it into a personal work journal. No cloud. No account. No code leaving your machine. Your git history already has the story. Worktale just tells it. I've been writing software professionally for over twenty years. In that time I've shipped hundreds of features, fixed thousands of bugs, and mass-deleted entire modules at 1 AM with the quiet confidence of someone who knows the tests will catch it. (They usually did.) But if you asked me what I built last March, I'd stare at you. Blank. Nothing. The work was real. The memory of it isn't. That's the problem Worktale solves. The Forgetting Tax Every developer I know has the same gap. You spend months deep in a codebase--shipping, iterating, solving genuinely hard problems--and then someone asks you to write a self-review, update your resume, or explain what you've been doing for the last quarter. And you open your git log and try to reverse-engineer your own career from commit mes
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