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 away with the ever beautiful waters of Gibbon River at our side, now admiring this, then admiring that. 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 start to get to the Coromandel peninsula, well turns out that barbecue, unfurl that tent! I even made a healthy cycling culture. 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.