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

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, deco