README.md: A Tragedy
Elena writes a memory preservation system for her father as Alzheimer's slowly erases him. What begins as a technical project becomes a different kind of documentation—one that records not bugs fixed but a person disappearing, captured in code comments and README revisions over eighteen months. When a stranger contributes pull requests to the public repository without understanding what it is really for, the boundary between private and public dissolves. This story asks what happens when the only language you have for grief is the language of your work, when the systems we design cannot save what we are trying to save, and whether that failure diminishes the love that built them. It is a meditation on documentation, loss, and the decision to keep building—not because building is enough, but because it is all we have.