I've been coding for about 8years now, professionally about half that time. I've always enjoyed it, or I think I have(it's the only thing i've been good at), but through that time I never found/understood the reason behind opensource contributions.
I know the theory about going the distance together, but never gave it some thought, at least until my boss thought it'd put me on a better position professionally(same with this article being public)
I worked on 2 first time issues over this weekend.
- Spacebar: had to investigate the api slowmode behavior and ensure the endpoint returns the required result. and
- node-config, basically handling a breaking change in the backend and writing the appropriate regression test.
The hardest part was trying to recreate the issue and familiarising myself with the repo.
"Why do I have to do this? if it was really important the repo owner would handle it."
I still don't think i was wrong in my thoughts, but having the first PR get accepted and the owner leaving a comment felt liberating.
Outside of work, I don't have friends that still code, so the 2 message converation about 10lines of code with a complete stranger felt like homelander discovering milk for the first time.
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