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Anthony Casson

Howdy! My first project contribution was tiny, but I loved it. It was fixing a grammatical issue in the "You Don't Know JS" book series. As for code contributions, it's just been little things over the past few years, mostly that have to do with problems I'm encountering with use cases for some small libraries. I wasn't really scared at all - I was a professional writer before with hardcore editors, and they are much more brutal than a lot of developers reviewing my code! But that's not an experience many devs get.

A lot of people talk about OSS contributions in the form of "code". But I'd never leave out the value in documentation contributions.