Dev.to user Tasbi03 shares their experience participating in Hacktoberfest 2024, a month-long open-source coding challenge. The article chronicles their journey, highlighting the issues they tackled, pull requests they submitted, and lessons learned along the way.
From adding security questions to a repository to implementing animations for a command-line interface, Tasbi03 reflects on the valuable skills gained through this experience. They emphasize the importance of balancing life and coding commitments, as well as persevering through challenges like merge conflicts and testing.
The post also touches on the emotional aspects of participating in Hacktoberfest, including the feeling of regret when an initial pull request was closed and the sense of accomplishment upon receiving feedback and approvals for subsequent submissions.