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Making the second pull request – Spinnaker Summit Gardening Days

by | Oct 27, 2020 | Spinnaker

I have two pull requests merged at spinnaker.github.io. Once you’ve made changes locally and successfully had your first pull request merged there are some additional steps to take before you make another PR.

If you haven’t made a pull request with GitHub before and you’d like to learn, Digital Ocean has put together a great guide and video to show you how.

If this guide doesn’t work for you, there are tons of resources on Google, GitHub, and YouTube. Search “making first pull request.”

The next pull request

When I started writing this blog post, I thought I would be listing the steps to making additional pull requests after the initial one to make changes on the website at Spinnaker.io.

It turns out that has already been written and it’s right here on the Spinnaker website. The only thing I would add is that when I was shown how to contribute, I was given this convention for naming my working branch:

GitHubLogin-short-description-of-change

For example:

prophen-update-link-to-spinnaker-issues

I haven’t seen everyone use that convention so it may not be a requirement but it’s how I approach my contributions to the Spinnaker.io site.

I’m a six-figure earner and money is still tight

by | Oct 27, 2020 | Career

I’ve been on my job since the end of August 2020. I’m three months in. I want to talk about what it was like to get started from where I started. I am literally and figuratively not whole today. I am so much better off than I was pre-employment but I don’t get to relax on a cushion of funds. Money is still tight.

Let’s stop right here and acknowledge my privilege today. I earn significantly more than the average American salary. It’s not trivial for a Black woman, with no degrees to make over $100k.

With that said, I’ve lived underwater for so long. Not having enough money and adequate healthcare coverage has had health implications. I’ve been accumulating debt my entire adult life. I’m pulling myself out of a deep financial hole.

Words are getting stuck. I know I have more to say but I can’t right now. Maybe I’ll revisit this when the words come back.

The last thought I have is to consider stories like mine when you talk about pay equity and gender and racial wealth gaps. Even at $100k, it’s going to take a while for me to get to zero net worth compared to a negative one. It’s going to take months to get the medical and dental treatment I need to not be in pain and discomfort daily.

I am in a race to get to a place of safety and just okay and I still have a job to do in exchange for this salary. I’m looking forward to the day that the fog of poverty lifts and I can see what I’m capable of at my full capacity. I have no idea what it’s like to not live under constant financial stress.

I’m going to try to record this journey as I live through it.

Keeping a streak going

by | Oct 23, 2020 | Uncategorized

I regret that I missed Thursday’s Spinnaker Summit sessions. I had a day full of dental appointments. They took up more time and energy than I had anticipated. I am ✨excited✨ because I have some new ideas about amplifying the work that other Summit Gardening Days participants are doing.

It’s quite late now and I don’t have a whole lot to say but I wanted to keep my blogging streak going. I’m working on consistency. Hopefully meatier posts are in this blog’s future.

Señorameatier Meteor GIF from Señorameatier GIFs

GIF caption: 🦕 Meteor/Meatier 🥺 meme

Making contributions to Summit Gardening Days

by | Oct 21, 2020 | Spinnaker

I made a small documentation change to the Spinnaker website and my PR was merged today! Small contributions matter, I’m trying to remind myself of that. Today was the first day of the summit that I was able to catch one of the sessions. I made a point to see our CTO Isaac give his keynote. It was a great talk on what urban city planning has in common with open-source software communities.

I’m struggling to keep a record of how the summit is going. My plan was to write at least something daily and to have enough material at the end of each week to pull together a blog post that is worthy of syndicating. Getting started is usually the hard part. I have to get a streak going and I’m sure blogging will get easier as I start to make it a habit.

Let’s Blog Spinnaker Summit 2020

by | Oct 19, 2020 | Spinnaker

Spinnaker Summit started today. I missed the first day which consisted of an opening keynote and a welcome address. If like me you missed the kickoff, let’s not feel bad for missing the first day. The summit will span a whole four weeks.

It’s kind of my job to care about Spinnaker and its community. I’m hoping that Spinnaker Summit will be a great opportunity to learn, hack, and become an active contributor in this open-source community.