I built the Jira VS Code extension at Atlassian. Then I started over.

A long time ago... About 7 years ago, I was 8 years into my 13 year tenure at Atlassian and helped build their Jira integration for Visual Studio Code. It worked, and we even streamlined a few things, but it was a bit messy and suffered from trying to be too many things in a single extension. After leaving Atlassian, I kept using the extension and was getting increasingly frustrated with using it for everyday tasks. All the while, I was constantly thinking about the potential of a focused Jira extension. So about a year ago, I decided to rebuild it from scratch. Not to add more features, but to make the Jira extension I actually wanted to use every day. What I ended up building The result is Code with Jira. Nothing revolutionary, just Jira when I need it and staying out of the way when I don't. I set out on this journey to handcraft a piece of software to the best of my ability and to create an extension I will use every day. I didn't give myself a time limit. I just started typing and