In 2025, I didn’t post a single blog. Everything felt so generated and inauthentic that I completely lost my passion for writing and sharing anything online.
It was also the year I landed my first developer role and started working full time. I had zero capacity for side projects. All my energy went into keeping up with my new job and learning how to survive as a dev.
And now here I am, fresh in 2026. I feel more confident in my role and I’m no longer spending every single minute preparing for the next workday. So I decided it’s finally time to come back to my project.
I’m a big fan of open source. When I first started shifting into tech, it was my partner who told me: “If you don’t have any experience and you need some, open source will be great for you.” And he was right. I learned a lot, contributed to real projects, grew as a developer, and got stuck many times along the way — in the best possible, learning way.
That’s also how my final project started when I was finishing my software development certificate: an idea to “somehow work with open source projects” by using the GitHub API.
So that’s what I’m going to be vlogging about in the upcoming months: building my own open source software.
This project is for my learning, first and foremost. I’ll be slowly adding more and more features, trying out new tools and patterns, and sharing what I learn as I go.
This is the first vlog of that journey, and you can follow along and learn with me.
Next time, I’ll share the repo with you, how I set it up, and how it looks right now.
Cheers, and happy New Year!
B.
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