... but because they are a bloody nuisance and we want them to be easy. In this talk I will reminisce on more than a decade of being an OpenBSD developer. With over 2,047 commits and more than 75,000 lines of code deleted, there are stories to tell. Like that one time when we... Or back in..., when I made this off-hand remark... I will talk about how I got my OpenBSD account, how I chose what to work on and how things like slowcgi(8), unwind(8), or sysupgrade(8) came to be. The focus will be on the day-to-day of being a volunteer developer, how I run my own infrastructure (hint, it is all OpenBSD-current) and how the six-month release cycle ties in to that.