Oh, today is my 8th anniversary of working on Mastodon. I was 23 when I started, finishing my last year of university, still living at my parent's place. I had no idea what I was getting myself into or that it would consume the next 8 years of my life almost completely.
@Gargron Some days I think we treat software development far too cavalierly. This stuff can be dangerous! It can completely change the path of your life if you are not careful.
So many wonderful things happen when we have no idea what we're getting into. If we'd known, we might not have done it; but it seemed worth doing so we began.
Days, months, years later... It was hard but worth it.
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