- Name of the person: Joschua
- Short title (for voting purposes): Obsidian instilled a love of coding in me.
Since opening Obsidian for the first time in May 2020, I was drawn to customization. I never had any experience with writing code. I am interested in tech but would never dare open a Terminal. Through the uniquely supportive and creative environment around Obsidian, that changed quickly. Templater and Dataview introduced me to JavaScript and suddenly I could make my computer dance to the rythm of my code.
I created a script to use the Bible in Obsidian. I experienced the joy of my device bowing to the text I wrote, and others finding it helpful too. This experience changed my habits: instead of drifting into YouTube when in front of my laptop, I would write in VS Code. The first time I opened an Obsidian plugin I was hit by the wall of code. Now I can see the logic and language behind it. I started creating a few small plugins and have a theme in Obsidians store.
And this is just the small beginning: I decided to study Computer Science at university, a passion I would have never discovered without Obsidian and the community around it.