With rainbow unicorns in our terminals, we were off to a promising start. And by “we” I mean “I”. You may recall this image from an earlier post:

How do you do (the things that you do)? What a great question. Since you’re so eager to find out, today I will let you in on a secret.

What have I been up to lately? So glad you asked. I made a new version of the first part of the OOUI library tutorial. So far this is coming along very well, and I hope the new tutorial will be merged soon. It’s in review now, so I’m expecting some corrections and modification requests first. And…

Things keep changing My primary mentor is moving to another team. The question arose whether I should start attending her new team’s stand-up meetings. The answer was revealed quickly: no way, man. Their meetings are at 4 P.M., San Francisco time, which in Israel is 2 A.M., AKA insane-o’clock. …

Two more weeks have passed, or maybe almost three, during which I have: learned more about processing data fetched from APIs using jQuery promises in an OOUI app — which I will tell you all about, whether you like it or not. learned to handle some Git issues specific to…

Know all the things! The large and unfamiliar codebase is still (at) large. But it’s a little less unfamiliar now. Most of it is thoroughly documented, which certainly helps. Plus, my mentors put in a lot of thought into constructing my tasks so as to allow my acquaintance with the codebase to be gradual…

A little more about my community bonding phase at Wikimedia Foundation — What I realized right away was that I had to organize all this new material: new user accounts, tutorials, documentation, other GSoC-related websites, etc., and I had to make everything easily accessible. So I started using browser bookmark folders and subfolders, and now everything is… um… foldered? Not sure. …

It appeared on my phone screen one evening — a letter of admission to Google Summer of Code 2018 (huzzah!). Although I had been expecting it for a while, my life was incredibly busy when it finally arrived: a recent house move + health issues + a new job (which…