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Don't Contribute to Open Source

Theo - t3․gg

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Beginner. No background in the topic needed.

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Theo argues against blindly contributing to open source projects for the sake of resume building and suggests better alternatives.

You heard me right. I don't think you should contribute to open source. Unless... KEYWORDS: GITHUB OPEN SOURCE CODING DEVELOPING PROGRAMMING LEARNING TO CODE FIRST CONTRIBUTION PULL REQUEST Check out my Twitch, Twitter, Discord more at t3.gg S/O Ph4se0n3 for the awesome edit 🙏

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What people say. Recommended to developers looking for open-source projects to help them understand the realities of contributing.

u/Glasgesichtin r/compsci • Recommends

On “Java open source contribution ideas?”

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On “Looking for open-source project”

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u/DeadlyVapourin r/dotnet • Mentions

On “Dipping more into open source any good projects to contribute to?”

Sorry not sorry, but this is very junior devs energy. "I NEED to contribute to open source". My first contribution to OSS was EFC. Why? Because I use EFC, and it was stupid certain functions weren't being translated to SQL. This YouTuber sums up my feeling on the issue link to this video You should become a user of open source first.
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