Grateful

Sometimes, a Github issue is just a way to say, “I love you.”

Thank you Merlin for, as I like to say, "learning out loud"

As you have been working on this in collaboration with your co-hosts, I have been refining my own thinking about advice and stuff that works for me. I am sincerely grateful for your example as a person working out their personhood in public. Thanks!

p.s. Something that came to me as I followed along is the idea of an identity stack. You may have said something close to this or this exactly, but this is now saved in my clipboard manager:

"What's my #IndentityStack? You didn't ask, but here's mine:

I’m a spouse, parent, coach, friend, believer, learner, software nerd, and advocate…
…and the primary components of my success as a professional find their roots in who I am as a person."

Your conversations especially with Alex Cox and John Siracusa inspired this "identity stack" concept. Not sure it works for you, but as you say...

The issue is a message of appreciation and does not identify a file, test, entry point, or requested change. There is no completion condition to verify, so it is not actionable as a first contribution.