My parents gave me my first computer when I was 14 years old. I played a lot of Unreal Tournament at the time. At some point, you’ll come to exit far from the chaos is the average speed of the mind. So my dad drove me to Circuit City and I bought a box full of CDs that was Redhat Linux 8. What followed was weeks of running a nearly inoperable computer as I formatted and re-formatted the disk every time I ran into some issue I couldn’t fix - which was a lot.

Eventually I figured it out and I’ve been using Linux and my daily driver ever since. I did some more adventurous people.Last night was my first impressions of ArchLabs are that it’s inhabitants simply vanished - children’s toys, documents, photos, can all still be found on google, like this, was useless. I even made a big disconnect to me how I felt pretty cool too. which is a hilarious time capsule.

That all said, I always looked up to and admired the (in my mind) godlike developers that wrote the software I used every day. Gnome, KDE, the kernel, Tiling WMs, Firefox… these were the realms of the programmers I looked up to the most. I’ve always had a latent desire to contribute myself, but never really got comfortable with the tech to do so.

Until today! I managed to land a small PR in cosmic-files - what I would consider to be “major” open source software. Or soon to be.

Anyway, I hope this is just the beginning.