Posts tagged: discuss

Are you participating in Hacktoberfest 2021? I got my start with open source with Hacktoberfest 2018. I remember being so nervous for those first pr’s. I have continued to participate every year, and it feels good to give back. It made a big change on me # Something that it really did for me was to lower the hurdle to contribute regularly. I am not a huge contributor to open source. I am not necessarily a regular maintainer of any large project, but I do often raise issues when I see things as a user that would make things easier or more clear. After participating it does not feel like such a big deal to go through the motions of making my own fork, making a small change, and submitting it for review. What can you do? # As a user, you might be in a unique position to see a library from the perspective of other users rather than from the eyes of a maintainer. You can help bring the user perspective to your favorite library. https://twitter.com/_WaylonWalker/status/1446440878864846909 My…

I ran this post on dev.to and got a great response of great examples, check it out.!! 🤓 What's on your GitHub Profile The GitHub profile feature just went live for a subset of users. Simply creating a repo named after your username, and clicking share to Profile on the sidebar will create a custom profile that shows up just above your pinned projects. I am still trying to figure out what to put on mine, but this is what I have so far. I feel like mine is a bit big at the moment, I don’t like that my pinned repos end up blow the fold. updated # I tightened mine up and took inspiration from a few others. Share a screenshot and link of yours on dev. updated again # Updated with a list of latest Twitter followers, using GitHub actions.