It’s Blogvent, day 5, where I blog daily in December!

Today, an Issue I made on a repository 11 years ago was closed. Eleven whole years!

The Issue hasn’t been solved yet (the team did say it’s on the roadmap though, so yay, and they had me make a Discussion post, so smash that upvote button), but man, the world is so different now. First of all, GitHub Discussions didn’t even exist at the time I made the original post, so that’s funny to think about. But the lion’s share of my entire career happened between then and now.

When I think back to that time in my life, it’s wild to consider that I wasn’t dating my husband yet, I was in my early developer evangelism days (thinking that a little icon in this repository could help move the needle), and I was really just starting to commit to open source seriously for the first time.

I also chuckle looking at the projects I worked on at the time, like this Python-based Snapchat dashboard that I fully forgot existed until 5 minutes ago. This one’s README doesn’t render headings correctly because I made it before GitHub Flavored Markdown was released, and back then you could make headings #Like This instead of # Like This and it was totally fine. Also this CSS Notepad project still fully works? Go past Cassidy!

Little did we know that the hype waves of crypto and then AI would consume our feeds, that a global pandemic was going to hit, or that a gal like me living in NYC would move to Seattle and then Chicago and have a couple kiddos. And, after all of the ups and downs of work and life and projects, she’d end up working for the platform she loved for years.

D’aww.