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It was 2014, and I was new to the JS Community and had just started organizing the NodeBots SF meetup. I got an email out of the blue from Mikeal, whom I hadn't yet met, asking if I wanted to run a NodeBots workshop as part of a little conference in Oakland Mikeal was organizing called JSFest. I jumped at the chance! I mean, this was _the_ Mikeal Rogers after all! How could I say no? This was the first time we collaborated together, and thankfully was far from the last.

Fast forward a few years, and now I'm deep in the Node.js project. I'm working with Mikeal and Tracy and so many others to solve some of the thorniest (and spiciest) community challenges we had at the time. We'd often talk about philosophy of community, and how to navigate the challenges we had. We both ended up leaving the project around the same time, and didn't have a chance to collaborate on a project after that.

Fast forward to today, I'm no longer active in open source, and the JavaScript community is something of a memory for me. But memories are powerful. When I think back on Mikeal, I don't really remember the decisions we made, the processes we authored, or any of the collaboration. What I remember is spending time with him, and the person he was.

I remember in Berlin during JSConf EU 2015, when Mikeal took my spouse and I to a favorite bar of his: Die Apotheken. I can still remember the plants on the wall, the wonderful aromas, and of course the good conversations there. I remember when we lived around the corner from each other in San Francisco and somewhat regularly getting dinner together. I remember pet sitting his dog Wolfie, who was a Very Good Dog and had hair that made his eyes look like they had eyelashes. I remember our chats about growing up with little money, something that's rare among engineers in SF but is something we shared. I remember sharing times of joy, times of frustration, times of laughter. Times together.

I'll miss him, and I'll remember him.

-Bryan