$octocat

nobody remembers when the octocat first showed up.
github was just a place to throw code, then suddenly it felt like something was there,
watching commits roll by like background noise.

the octocat never wrote code.
it watched how people worked.
how they collaborated, argued in pull requests,
fixed bugs they caused at 2am.

clean commits went smooth.
messy ones somehow came back to haunt you.
probably coincidence.
nobody wanted to test it twice.

as github grew, the octocat grew with it.
branches, merges, forks —
all just different futures playing out.

it didn't care about secrets or hype, just intent.
open things lived.
abandoned things sank.

now it mostly chills,
watching the world ship half-finished ideas,
knowing one truth:

code changes.
the octocat stays.