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Hacktoberfest 2021?
Are you participating in Hacktoberfest 2021? I got my start with open source with Hacktoberfest 2018. I remember being so nervous for those first pr's. I have continued to participate every year, and it feels good to give back. It made a big change on me Something that it really did for me was to lower the hurdle to contribute regularly. I am not a huge contributor to open source. I am not necessarily a regular maintainer of any large project, but I do often raise issues when I see things as a u
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🤓 What's on your GitHub Profile
I ran this post on dev.to and got a great response of great examples, check it out . dev.to whats-on-your-github-profile The GitHub profile feature just went live for a subset of users. Simply creating a repo named after your username, and clicking share to Profile on the sidebar will create a custom profile that shows up just above your pinned projects. I am still trying to figure out what to put on mine, but this is what I have so far. I feel like mine is a bit big at the moment, I don't li
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Variables names don't need their type
So often I see a variables inside of its name and it hurts me a little inside. Tell me I'm right or prove me wrong below. Examples Pandas are probably the worst offender that I see Sometimes vanilla structures too! Edge Cases? It's so common when you need to get inside a data structure in a special way that itsn't provided by the library.... I am not exactly sure of a good way around it. Containers are plural Always name your containers plural, so that naming while iterating is simple. Befo