Working on a truly privacy preserving project continues to be one of the most rewarding and weird things I've ever done.
Q: "How many users do you have?"
A: "No idea, I know we get a trickle of anonymous contributors, people who show up and share support for a completely new language or a bug report or a feature idea or just a thank you and then they vanish forever - that could be one prolific person or a dozen different ones, I really don't know, and I think that's incredibly cool"