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🌸 My First Open Source Contribution – and It Wasn't Scary!

Hey DEV fam! I'm Riya β€” a CSE student from India who loves writing code (and a little poetry too πŸ’Œ).
This month, I made my first open source PR to Fastify β€” and it actually got reviewed πŸ˜­πŸ’–.

πŸ’» What I Did:
Tackled a beginner-friendly issue around ESLint rules.

Learned about proper commit messages, branch naming, and contributing guidelines.

Understood how real-world codebases are structured (spoiler: huge but fun).

🌱 What I Learned:
Open source folks are super welcoming.

Even "small" changes matter.

It’s okay to ask for help and make mistakes.

πŸ’¬ What’s Next?
I'm planning to contribute every month and prep for GSoC 2026 β€” manifesting it ✨
Also building a cool tool called SkillSnap (a dev portfolio + roadmap builder) β€” more on that soon!

Would love to connect with others starting their OSS journey β€” let’s grow together πŸš€

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