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  "canonicalUrl": "https://johnnyreilly.com/posts/oh-glamour-of-open-source",
  "description": "A programmer recounts a sleepless night spent fixing a gap in an open source project, but accidentally deletes the repo and eventually seeks help.",
  "path": "/posts/oh-glamour-of-open-source",
  "publishedAt": "2017-08-30T00:00:00.000Z",
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  "textContent": "Here's how my life panned out in the early hours of Wednesday 30th September 2017:\n\n\n\n <dl><dt>2 am</dt><dd>awoken by Lisette having a nightmare</dd><dt>3 am</dt><dd>gave up hope of getting back to sleep upstairs and headed for the sofa</dd><dt>4 am</dt><dd>still not asleep and discovered a serious gap in an open source project I help out with</dd><dt>4:30 am</dt><dd> come up with idea for a fix</dd><dt>4:45 am</dt><dd> accidentally delete a repo that I and many others care about from GitHub</dd><dt>4:50 am</dt><dd> recover said repo from backups (sweet mercy how could I be so stupid?)</dd><dt>4:55 am</dt><dd> actually succeed in cloning the repo I want to hack on </dd><dt>5:30 am</dt><dd> implement fix and <a href=\"https://github.com/Realytics/fork-ts-checker-webpack-plugin/pull/43\">send PR</a></dd><dt>5:35 am</dt><dd> go for a walk round the river</dd><dt>6:30 am</dt><dd> realise I didn't submit a test for the changed functionality</dd><dt>6:35 am</dt><dd> write test only to discover I can't run the test pack on Windows</dd><dt>6:40 am</dt><dd> add test to PR anyway so I can see test results when Travis runs on each commit.</dd><dt>7 am</dt><dd>despair at the duration of my feedback loop, totally fail to get my tests to pass</dd><dt>7:10 am</dt><dd> stub my toe really badly on a train set Benjamin has been busily assembling beneath my feet</dd><dt>7:11 am</dt><dd> 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 🌷</dd><dt>7:12 am</dt><dd> feel like a slight failure and profoundly tired.</dd></dl>\n\nOh the glamour of open source.",
  "title": "Oh the Glamour of Open Source"
}