npx life@2024 preview: How Missing Flights, Finding Love, and Building Svelte Apps Changed Everything

Yo devs! 👋 Having a literal breakdown right now (the good kind though!). Remember that feeling when your code works after 47 failed deployments? Yeah, multiply that by 100 — that’s me today.

Let me take you back to 2018. There I was, a random guy from Bardiya, Nepal, armed with a potato laptop and dreams bigger than my RAM size. Started like every other small-town dev — HTML, CSS, and enough Python to print “Hello World” in rainbow colors (jk, it was console only 😅).

Created my first Fiverr profile with some janky Photoshop gigs. Thought I was gonna be the next big thing, you know? Spoiler alert: zero orders lol. My SEO game was trash back then. Like, absolute garbage. We’re talking “I’ll edit your photo professional” type listings with descriptions that’d make GPT-3 cry 💀

Fast forward to 2020. I’m grinding through college, studying science; Chemistry, Physics, Maths, and Computer Science. Covid struck, college closed. And I had to return to my home town.

Back home, I am learning Python because everyone said it’s “beginner-friendly” (narrator: “The friendly part was debatable”). That’s when my dad drops this casual reminder about Fiverr. Now, if you’re from a small town in Nepal, you know that…