While I wrote that title I heard the voice of my training app in my head… so that’s fun.
This month I’ve been doing more than normal and I honestly have no clue how I’m balancing it all. Last night I relaxed and watched Idiocracy and After and blogged a bit, neither took a ton of concentration which was exactly what I needed.
HACKTOBERFEST:
I am participating in Hacktoberfest this month. My plan was to do one the first couple days and then one each Saturday. Basically I’m one behind where I was planning to be at.
First Pull Request:
This was a super simple one just to get used to the process of doing a PR. There was good documentation and I basically just had to put in a new JavaScript object of a movie, emojis, etc.
Second Pull Request:
I had a goal to do something in C++ and since I’m just learning I decided to do one that was a HackerRank problem. I didn’t want people to just be able to copy the answer blindly so I also added in a couple comments about why the answer is what it is and why it isn’t as straightforward as I thought it’d be. I did one on a for loop and one on pointers.
I had only done pointers and then I was looking at PRs other people have put in and someone else had already done that. So note to myself (and others): LOOK AT THE PENDING PRs.
How's everyone else's Hacktoberfest going?
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Top comments (6)
Ok? I didn't realize that Flatiron labs counted toward Hacktoberfest, so I was "done" on the one. I still want to do some legit contributions, but I need to figure out where it fits within other priorities.
I've never done Flatiron but it is any PR. I do really want to get to five or six so that I have three or four "quality" ones.
Hacktoberfest is going well so far I'm also halfway, thanks for asking! I noticed you have some experience with SEO, and one of the PR's I did was looking for a rewrite of the google play store text and some help with SEO. I re-wrote the play store text, but know nothing about SEO. The PR is already merged, but you could probably open a new issue to help out with SEO if you wanted. Link to the repo and issue below. Good luck!
github.com/funkyzooink/little-robo...
github.com/funkyzooink/little-robo...
First off, congratulations on the progress you have made so far! I totally forgot it was Hacktoberfest, and I might give it a shot.
You made a crucial point I often forget. Pull requests don't have to be extravagant. Little PRs can go a long way. It can really make someone's day when you stumble across their repo and find a vulnerable NPM package to update or some documentation to enhance.
It's such a rewarding experience contributing to open source. Earlier this year I was investigating a bug in the F# libraries and Don Syme, one of the creators of F#, started talking to me and offering guidance on how to proceed. I got to talk to one of my programming heroes and learned a ton of obscure details about Internet standards!
I feel like so many people forget that smaller things still count and are insanely helpful.
That's so cool and such a learning experience! That's definitely a life highlight.
All Hail President Camacho!!! :D