I love irony. Always have, always will. It’s by far my favorite type of humour, partly because it’s smart but isn’t necessarily pretentious; it requires some intelligence to understand, but can still be applied on most things. I even once started a community group for ironists, but after the five first joiners thought sarcasm was irony I closed it down. Think about that for a second.
Irony is also constantly present in my life. Three days ago I posted about how proud I was over my contribution streak being longer than the guy that inspired me to do it. Not 48 hours later, I failed it. Yesterday marks the first day in 179 days in which I did not contribute to the world of Open Source software.
I never touched my computer during the work day because of meetings, and after work I went straight to my friend Johanna. She had been in Thailand for 6 months, so I was very eager to meet her. After huggings and talkings for a while, I decided to leave. The original plan was to go home, but I felt like socializing a bit more with friends, so I gathered a gang and went for a couple of beers at this new place on Fridhemsplan.
It wasn’t until I was waiting for the bus home at 03:00 that a punch of darkness hit my stomach. I had missed the entire window for contributing on March 28th. When I got home, still drunk me thought a slight slip-up was fine and faked a commit and went to bed. Ironically enough, sober me disagrees and thinks that the attempt to save the streak is a sign that it’s time to stop it. Therefore, I am now calling quits on my first round of GitHub contributions. Today I will not commit anything, effectively resetting my streak.
I will definitely do another one, but I will wait a month. During April, I want to see how my routine and behaviour will be if I don’t have the streak to think of. I want to measure how much I will do without it.
So, today is a bit of a sad day, but not really. It was a fun experiment, and I will always relish the fact that once I was proud and said I beat the 177 days, I borked it, haha. I’ll still continue to contribute as much as I can, I’ll just have to revise my method. I’ll probably start again in May or so, because this was fun and made me better.
Now I just need to figure out what to do today since I am not to code. Movie night perhaps? <‘3