Oh the Glamour of Open Source

Here's how my life panned out in the early hours of Wednesday 30th September 2017:

2 am

awoken by Lisette having a nightmare

3 am

gave up hope of getting back to sleep upstairs and headed for the sofa

4 am

still not asleep and discovered a serious gap in an open source project I help out with

4:30 am

come up with idea for a fix

4:45 am

accidentally delete a repo that I and many others care about from GitHub

4:50 am

recover said repo from backups (sweet mercy how could I be so stupid?)

4:55 am

actually succeed in cloning the repo I want to hack on

5:30 am

implement fix and send PR

5:35 am

go for a walk round the river

6:30 am

realise I didn't submit a test for the changed functionality

6:35 am

write test only to discover I can't run the test pack on Windows

6:40 am

add test to PR anyway so I can see test results when Travis runs on each commit.

7 am

despair at the duration of my feedback loop, totally fail to get my tests to pass

7:10 am

stub my toe really badly on a train set Benjamin has been busily assembling beneath my feet

7:11 am

give in and literally beg the project owner in Paris to fix the tests for me. He takes pity on me and agrees. Possibly because I gave him emoji tulips 🌷

7:12 am

feel like a slight failure and profoundly tired.

Oh the glamour of open source.