TIL I wanna be an open source dev when I grow up

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You don’t need to grow up to be an open source dev.

Shawn I don’t know how many more of these mic drops I can take 😮‍💨 👏🏼

#wisdom

^ That.

In fact, growing up is strongly discouraged in the industry.

If you need help learning to code, hit me up. It's fun!

I definitely do! I’ve been told (hey nostr:npub1ysxnqpymj6tq9cvqc6xfsughar0vkynxtyxqjaud5e5hq88cvf2qehzld9 🫶🏼) that one of the best places to start is by contributing to open source projects, especially with documentation-type tasks (at least at first)

I have some experience in node.js and a littttle bit of python but I’m especially interested in rust

Feel free to comment/DM me with any tips! The more of us learning, building, and teaching the better!

Half the battle is just getting the environment set up lol. Once there just try some silly changes to button functions like print hello world to terminal. After doing a number of these you will start to understand the flow and structure of the code base.