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Are you participating in Hacktoberfest 2021?

<p>Are you participating in Hacktoberfest 2021?</p> <p>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.</p> <h2 id="it-made-a-big-change-on-me">It made a big change on me <a href="#it-made-a-big-change-on-me" class="heading-anchor">#</a></h2> <p>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 user that would make things easier or more clear.</p> <p>After participating it does not feel like such a big deal to go through the motions of making my own fork, making a small change, and submitting it for review.</p> <h2 id="what-can-you-do">What can you do? <a href="#what-can-you-do" class="heading-anchor">#</a></h2> <p>As a user, you might be in a unique position to see a library from the perspective of other users rather than from the eyes of a maintainer. You can help bring the user perspective to your favorite library.</p> <p><a href="https://twitter.com/_WaylonWalker/status/1446440878864846909" class="hoverlink">https://twitter.com/_WaylonWalker/status/1446440878864846909</a></p> <p>My favorite error messages are those that I helped tweak just a bit to make it clear to the user what is happening and how to fix it. As much as we all hate getting errors, It does warm my heart when I see one that I helped make better.</p> <h2 id="discuss">Discuss <a href="#discuss" class="heading-anchor">#</a></h2> <p>Are you participating this year?</p> <p>Show us some of your PR’s, and why they make a difference.</p> <p>Let me know on <a href="https://twitter.com/_WaylonWalker">twitter</a> or in this <a href="https://dev.to/waylonwalker/hacktoberfest-2021-1mkf" style="--favicon-url: url(&#39;/assets/markata/link-avatars/dev.to.ico&#39;);" data-favicon="/assets/markata/link-avatars/dev.to.ico" class="has-avatar has-avatar-before">dev.to</a> discussion.</p> Waylon Walker hello@waylonwalker.com https://waylonwalker.com https://waylonwalker.com/whats-on-your-github-profile/ 2020-07-11T03:00:00Z 2020-07-11T03:00:00Z

I ran this post on dev.to and got a great response of great examples, check it out.

<p>I ran this post on dev.to and got a great response of great examples, <a href="https://dev.to/waylonwalker/what-s-on-your-github-profile-40p3" style="--favicon-url: url(&#39;/assets/markata/link-avatars/dev.to.ico&#39;);" data-favicon="/assets/markata/link-avatars/dev.to.ico" class="has-avatar has-avatar-before">check it out</a>.</p> <p><a href="https://dev.to/waylonwalker/what-s-on-your-github-profile-40p3"><img class="glightbox" src="https://images.waylonwalker.com/whats-on-your-github-profile.png" alt="dev.to whats-on-your-github-profile"/ data-glightbox="description: dev.to whats-on-your-github-profile"></a></p> <p>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.</p> <p>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 like that my pinned repos end up blow the fold.</p> <p><a href="https://github.com/waylonwalker"><img class="glightbox" src="https://dev-to-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com/i/pk1ostnnpn9dmlbs4emv.png" alt="my github profile"/ data-glightbox="description: my github profile"></a></p> <h2 id="updated">updated <a href="#updated" class="heading-anchor">#</a></h2> <p>I tightened mine up and took inspiration from a few others.</p> <p><a href="https://github.com/waylonwalker"><img class="glightbox" src="https://dev-to-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com/i/zl9o2kmxoy2c7xv16pbz.png" alt="Alt Text"/ data-glightbox="description: Alt Text"></a></p> <p>Share a screenshot and link of yours <a href="https://dev.to/waylonwalker/what-s-on-your-github-profile-40p3" style="--favicon-url: url(&#39;/assets/markata/link-avatars/dev.to.ico&#39;);" data-favicon="/assets/markata/link-avatars/dev.to.ico" class="has-avatar has-avatar-before">on dev</a>.</p> <h2 id="updated-again">updated again <a href="#updated-again" class="heading-anchor">#</a></h2> <p>Updated with a list of latest Twitter followers, using GitHub actions.</p> <figure> <a href="https://dev-to-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com/i/f8fcm9dvvozj4rzh4376.png" class="glightbox-link"><img class="glightbox" src="https://dev-to-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com/i/f8fcm9dvvozj4rzh4376.png" alt="waylonwalkers GitHub profile"/ data-glightbox="description: waylonwalkers GitHub profile"></a> </figure> Waylon Walker hello@waylonwalker.com https://waylonwalker.com