2000 commits, update 18, and a coincidence on my birthday
Today is my birthday. And today, without planning it, WorkoutNote shipped its 18th update, on the exact same day. And as if that wasn’t enough, checking the repo this morning I noticed something else: we’ve crossed 2000 commits.
I don’t know if any of this means anything. Probably not. It’s just a coincidence of dates and numbers, nothing more. But I’ve been thinking about it all day, so I’m going to let myself write about it, even if it’s silly.
What I dreamed of three years ago
When I started my software development degree, I had one very specific image in my head: having my own app in production someday, with real people using it, backed by a repository with more than a thousand commits.
I didn’t even fully know why that number mattered so much to me. I guess a repo with a thousand commits felt like proof that something was real — not a weekend project left half-finished, but something someone kept showing up for, update after update, bug after bug, late night after late night.
The real road behind the number
Today that repo has double the commits that kid three years ago barely dared to dream about. And it wasn’t a straight road.
There was a complete data loss on a server that wasn’t mine. I had to start over with my own infrastructure. There were months of doubt, job interviews that went nowhere, code I rewrote three times because the first two versions didn’t convince me.
None of that shows up in the commit counter, but it’s there, hidden inside every single one of them.
Today
I don’t usually stop to look back much. I move on to the next feature, the next bug, the next idea. But today, with the birthday and the coincidence of the numbers, I felt like writing this to the version of me from three years ago.
Telling him: yes, you made it. The app exists, it has real users, the repo blew past that number that once felt out of reach. And also writing it to myself, today, because I sometimes forget to give myself credit for the road behind me — and it’s good to acknowledge it, even if just once a year.
What’s next
I don’t know what the next 2000 commits will bring. But if I’ve learned anything in this time, it’s that they get built one at a time, without rushing but without letting go, and that the things I’m most proud of were never the fastest or the flashiest — they were the ones I kept showing up for when no one else was watching.
Happy birthday to me. And thank you, WorkoutNote, for choosing today to remind me of it.