Bryce here. A work-in-progress full-stack dev traversing the fascinating universe of open-source software. After 20+ years as a jack of all trades in the music industry and various other facets of arts and culture, I have spent the last 4 years descending into the depths of software development in search of new opportunities for my life and career. Venturing through the open-source community seems like an exciting way of discovering ideas and focusing in on a greater purpose.

There's something about the concept of open source that invokes the old-school origins of computing and really fosters community. In my books Woz > Jobs, regardless of how incredible the existence of an iPhone is. There's so much to be said of the potential for ideas to grow when they are shared and the power of diverse minds to evolve and expand on it, in a way that just doesn't exist in isolation. That's what attracts me to open source.

As I explore this brave new world, I want to get to know interesting developers and build my coding skills in the process, find cool projects, and contribute where I can or just learn something in the process of trying.

Pragmatically, I need to build my online presence and develop my portfolio into something worth sharing and I want to document the process. On a technical level, learning more about purposeful and effective project documentation is a big goal, as is getting a grip on testing. If I'm being totally honest, I want to be highly employable and at the same time would love to stoke my entrepreneurial fire and focus my energy on exciting ideas that can make an impact in the real world. It's vague I know, but perhaps refining my vision of where I can focus my energy, is the ultimate goal.

There was a lot of great projects trending on GitHub and I had a tough time deciding but one of the first to really interest me wasKillinaLucas' Open Interpreter. This is a cool integration of Open AI’s LLM into the local environment, allowing you the AI to preform tasks directly within your operation system environment. I choose to look a little further into this project because a) I did a couple projects with Py recently and I wanted to keep developing my skills in the language, and b) I want to learn more about AI and would like to find different ways to utilize it to help me learn but also find ways to work on and develop AI projects. This seemed like a relatively simple but interesting way to start exploring accessing ChatGPT tools. I’ll keep you posted on where it leads me.