[brendev]

Hey man this is going to sound really weird but when I just saw your name, it struck me as super familiar. Like I know I've seen your name on GitHub somewhere. I started going through your public Repos and I figured it out!

The first commit I ever made was on a fork of one of your projects over 5 years ago. I wasn't a software engineer then, I was just some guy learning to code in his free time.

Anyways I just wanted to say thank you. I know it may seem silly. But your code gave me the scaffolding I needed to take some important first steps towards where I am today. I'm now a senior software engineer/team lead!

If you were curious, here's the fork: https://github.com/brendenriggs/GottaSlackEmAll

I've got to say: I don't play any more, but I definitely miss those early day when Pokemon Go first came out. Good times.

[jxmorris12]

Wow, that’s really wild! Yeah, I remember this — 8 years ago Pokémon go came out and I was working on some projects to reverse engineer the API. Now I’m reverse engineering neural networks. Go figure.

[josh-sematic]

These rare encounters are one of the things that make me love the internet.

[jgrahamc]

I had an encounter like this in real life. Turns out Tom Scott was a really early contributor to POPFile. He was a teenager and I’d never met him. Had been enjoying his YouTube channel for a long time. One day he interviewed me at some conference and thanked me for accepting his commits when he was a teen.