Added old post about my first PR. Updated archetype for most generic posts.

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+title: 'My First Merged PR!'
+date: 2022-09-01T13:25:02-04:00
+tags: ["git", "opensource", "diy"]
+author: "Me"
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+description: 'Child like joy of having my first merged PR! I recently was using Whiptail library and fixed a bug.'
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+    alt: "Git Pull Request with an arrow pointing to a check mark"
+    caption: "Git pull request was accepted and merged!"
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+
+Admittedly, I feel a bit like a child sharing something like this, as there are so many devs that pull and merge requests
+from contributors on a regular basis. However, while I've contributed to documentation and/or tutorials and other non-coding
+portions of repositories, I feel a tiny bit proud that this was the first instance where I was using a library, [found a bug](https://github.com/domdfcoding/whiptail/issues/41),
+created an issue, cloned the repo to my local machine, found and fixed the code, and opened a pull request. It was a great
+learning experience with git, github, contributing to projects, and more. [My first merged PR!](https://github.com/domdfcoding/whiptail/pull/42)
+
+The project and library I was using was called [Whiptail](https://github.com/domdfcoding/whiptail) which allows you to use
+the terminal message boxes through a python script. [Here are their docs](https://whiptail.readthedocs.io/en/latest/). These message boxes are the same that you might see when you install a linux distro from a USB or first install of a server.
+
+What I was using this for is to develop an visually appealing way to use the [Meshtastic CLI](https://meshtastic.org/docs/software/python/cli). There can be a ton of
+settings and flags to add to your [Meshtastic](https://meshtastic.org/) device and adding the flags one by one - or worse,
+you have to go back and change a flag and you're not using [zsh-vi-mode](https://github.com/jeffreytse/zsh-vi-mode) - can be
+time consuming. This project would allow you to choose in a whiptail dialog from a list of flags and pass values to the
+flags. By having them in a navigable list, you can always retract a flag you no longer need.
+
+Then, once you've added everything you need, you confirm, and the command runs and syncs up your Meshtastic device!
+
+Maybe I'll post more about that project if I ever get around to finishing it. But since Meshtastic releases new updates on
+such a regular basis, I need to ensure the project pulls from Meshtastic commands in a more dynamic way.
+
+Anyway, in this letter to no one, just thought I'd share my excitement.