#100DaysOfOSS Recap: Day 15-27

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✅ Recap: Day 15-27

Learning and Supports

During this period, I focused more on writing blog posts to support the open source community and motivating others to dive into open source.

I wrote and published a blog post about my #100DaysOfOSS journey; #100DaysOfOSS Recap: Day 1-14.

I published an article; How to Communicate Better in Open Source.

I revisited my posts with open-source topics and improved and edited one.

I looked closer into OpenSauced Highlights and added my highlights.

I attended two "Open Source Hour" Twitter spaces hosted by OpenSauced.

I answered a question on Twitter about open source.

Contributions

I'm working on editing the previously improved Virtual Coffee Podcast transcriptions to follow the new guidelines and pushed them to a draft pull request.

I created three issues to update the content of community guides in Virtual Coffee and made pull requests.

I encountered some bugs and saw room for improvement when creating the highlights on OpenSauced. So I made a few issues on the open-sauced / insights repository.

I created an issue to ask for a feature to order the highlights based on the selected date that now moved into a discussion.

I made an issue to address a bug in the calendar's responsiveness.

I created an issue to address a bug of avatars that are either empty or not the user.

I raised an issue to address a bug in the sidebar's responsiveness on the big screens.

Challenges

Whenever I want to raise an issue, I always look for the same or similar issues and pull requests to avoid duplications. But it's still challenging for me to find them — especially when there are hundreds of them! — even though I used many variations of keywords. It is one reason I often hesitate to create an issue on a repository I'm unfamiliar with 😣. But this time around, I pushed through 💪!

Writing good titles and clear descriptions for issues is still challenging for me. I need to practice more. Now I make it a habit to create screen recordings (in GIFs) to make my point more straightforward when necessary.

Wins and Gratitudes

I finally published the post that sat in my draft for almost a year!

My article, How to Communicate Better in Open Source, got onto the OpenSauced newsletter, earned me a CodeNewbie badge on DEV, and was featured on Top Featured CodeNewbie Posts (8/17/23)!

One of my highlights got featured on OpenSauced's weekly Highlight Reel!

My pull request to update the README on OpenSauced 's 100-days-of-oss-template repository got merged!

My pull request to update a guide at Virtual Coffee got merged!

Final Words

If you just heard about the #100DaysOfOSS challenge and want to participate, there is still time. You can start now and join us 🙌!

And if you're doing #100DaysOfOSS, how was your experience? Do share it with us in the comment below 😄!

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#100DaysOfOSS Recap: Day 15-27

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✅ Recap: Day 15-27

Learning and Supports

Contributions

Challenges

Wins and Gratitudes

Final Words

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More from this blog

✅ Recap: Day 15-27

Learning and Supports

Contributions

Challenges

Wins and Gratitudes

Final Words