Alice in the Open Source Land
summary
First-hand account gives concrete outcomes: added ddof to std across four occurrences and pushed a PR that passes tests and gets accepted GIFs; work focuses on narwals makes data-frame-agnostic tools with zero dependencies, static typing and backends for pandas polars dask modin and cuDF. Includes exact tooling (doctstrings tests GitHub workflow), surprising claim (around 90% of software is open source), and honest failures—brute-force debugging, shipped broken code, then fixed.
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chapters (8)
- 0:00Introduction
- 1:05Magdalena’s open source journey
- 6:35What is open source
- 9:47First contribution struggles
- 15:09Key learnings from open source
- 17:59Narwals: data frame library
- 21:16Start contributing to open source
- 25:21Q&A
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