fannish 50 #3: coding for fandom

snowflake_challenge seems delayed for day 3, so I shall ad lib for Fannish 50 and talk about coding for fandom.

I tried and failed to engage with fandom coding early on, when AO3 was getting spun up (got recruited at my university to join AO3 coders! Then gave up very rapidly as I was both very busy and not yet very hip with coding) and when the LJ-DW shift was occurring (will I ever understand S2 themes? No, because it takes too much CPU!). But 2017 (!!) rolled around and I coded the first-ever Yuletide tagset app because I could not stand for the life of me looking at a large AO3 tagset in the UI. The rest is history!

( Some of that history: )

Along the way, I've tried out new exchanges and managed to learn to write again. I now even manage some fannish joy every now and then! I have so much love for the people who reached out and helped me back into fandom via this stuff: Morbane and Fence and Firebird and everyone else. Then there are the crazily generous donors who show up every year to toss a coin to their Witcher coder to keep the app (and my spirits) up. Then on top of that are the amazing writers and recipients I've met in the course of trying exchanges other than Yuletide. It's been an super fun ride, and one I hope I get to keep riding for the foreseeable future. ♥