I want you to contribute to open source
summary
Solve your own problem, generalize it, then ask the magic question: can I make it open source. Example: a tiny Node.js microservice called micro-github packages GitHub login into 67 lines of code and can deploy in five seconds, so the feature works without redoing the hard thinking. Another example turns social share SDKs into a generator that removes hundreds of kilobytes of JS. One more is improving confusing client caching docs so the custom cache actually works.
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chapters (11)
- 0:00#MAX STOIBER
- 1:49Solve your own god damn problems
- 4:49Some examples...
- 5:01Support Login with GitHub
- 7:40Ask yourself the magic question: "Can I make it open source?"
- 8:57Add social media sharing buttons
- 12:57Implement custom caching behaviour in Apollo Client
- 13:56Writing good documentation is very very hard
- 15:11Improving documentation is a great first contribution
- 15:24Open source projects aren't different from your work projects
- 17:16Don't compare yourself unfairly
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