I think this is perfectly natural - some ideas never manifest or are convincing enough to publish, or sometimes you write code and it turns out not to be used - why produce production ready code in this case. I have a python package that I slowly developed over 5 years, step by step [1]. Everytime I use it, I find many things that I could develop, some I do right then, others I leave for later. I also have a blog [2] - you can see three dates for each blog post:

- the time I first started working on it

- the first time I published it

- the last time it was updated

All of these dates are important. Between start of writing and publishing, easily a whole year can pass. Think of doing things more like a process of chained events, not like a one-stop thing.

[1]: https://github.com/Sieboldianus/TagMaps

[2]: https://du.nkel.dev/