From Practice Repos to an Agent Named Sukma

Rereading 201 of my own repos, then asking which ones will last.

“Code I wrote 2 years ago.” Mine are eight years old. (via r/ProgrammerHumor)

In 2019, while ordering a motorcycle ride through an app, I got curious about one small thing. The driver’s icon on the map turned by itself to face the direction the motorcycle was moving. How does it do that?

That question became Kemana, an open source ride-hailing app that is still my most popular repo today. I only saw how it got there this week, when I asked Sukma, the AI agent that helps me with programming work every day, to list all of my public repos, sorted from the oldest. The result was 201 rows.

My GitHub account was created in July 2015, and the oldest public repo that still exists is CilacapIntegrateTourism from October 2017. But the part most worth rereading is the years after that, when I didn’t yet know what I wanted to become and every new thing immediately got its own repo.

My oldest public repos, all created before April 2018.

Throughout 2018 I created 44 repos, more than in any year since. Almost all of them were practice, and none of the names were thought through. One of them, created on March 15, 2018, is called Bismillahcieciee. Bismillah means “in the name of God”, the phrase Muslims say…