Writing · 134 entries

Notes on blog

Open source, documentation, community, and learning in public — everything I've published since 2020.

01 · Recognitions

When it got featured

This writing's been highlighted 9 times across newsletters, weekly round-ups, challenge wins, and more.

Top 7 Featured DEV Posts of the Week ×4 Apr 2026

DEV Community
All 4 — articles & featured posts
2025 Hacktoberfest Writing Challenge Winners Nov 2025

DEV Community

for Beyond Hacktoberfest: Building a True Open Source Journey
Top Open Source Contributors 2023 Nov 2023

freeCodeCamp
Quincy Larson's Weekly Email — Sep 22, 2023 Sep 2023

freeCodeCamp

for How to Contribute to Open Source Projects – Non-Technical Things You Should Know
Top Featured CodeNewbie Posts Aug 2023

CodeNewbie

for How to Communicate Better in Open Source
OSS Grant Badge Winners Nov 2021

Hashnode

02 · The archive

Everything I've written

Showing all 134 entries, newest first. marks a piece something above points at; marks one that only ever ran on another site and opens there; a dev.to tag marks one that lives here but was first published there.

2026

Wanted: Beginners-friendly open source projects dev.to Jul 16, 2026

open-source community
I was skeptical of AI. Then it saved me hours of writing. Jul 7, 2026

ai writing
From helping out to taking ownership: The art of sticking around Apr 8, 2026

open-source oss-maintainers community
The curated, automated open source portfolio: How it’s going Apr 1, 2026

open-source portfolio github

2025

Open source engagement: What's working now? Dec 10, 2025

open-source community
Beyond Hacktoberfest: Building a true open source journey Oct 27, 2025

hacktoberfest open-source
My first video tutorials contribution for Hacktoberfest Oct 22, 2025

hacktoberfest open-source
Giving non-code contributions the recognition they deserve Mautic Oct 15, 2025

open-source community
Hacktoberfest: Making it enjoyable for contributors and maintainers Oct 11, 2025

hacktoberfest oss-maintainers open-source
How I built a curated, automated open source portfolio Oct 5, 2025

open-source portfolio github
Goals check-in: How's your progress flowing? dev.to Apr 30, 2025

community productivity year-in-review
Hello, 2025: The one big goal dev.to Jan 26, 2025

year-in-review career
Thank you, 2024: The challenges and achievements dev.to Jan 9, 2025

year-in-review career

2024

Join Virtual Coffee in new year, new goal: Setting one big goal and achieving it! dev.to Dec 30, 2024

community productivity
Monthly challenge: Creative community challenge! dev.to Nov 30, 2024

community
Open source is for everyone: First experience in non-code contribution to Mautic during Hacktoberfest 2024 Nov 19, 2024

open-source hacktoberfest diversity
Hacktoberfest 2024: My 2nd year experience as a maintainer dev.to Nov 3, 2024

hacktoberfest oss-maintainers open-source
Hacktoberfest 2024: Why you should participate dev.to Sep 30, 2024

hacktoberfest open-source
How to Set Up GitHub CLI on WSL2 freeCodeCamp Aug 14, 2024

github
Monthly challenge: Welcoming community! dev.to Jul 1, 2024

community
Streamline your contributions: Mastering issue forms and PR templates dev.to Jun 6, 2024

open-source github oss-maintainers
Building bridges, not walls: The importance of documentation in open source projects dev.to Jun 4, 2024

open-source documentation oss-maintainers
Monthly challenge: Mid-year check-in — recharge and refocus for an amazing second half! dev.to May 31, 2024

community productivity mental-health
The missing piece: Why your project needs a maintainer onboarding process dev.to May 30, 2024

open-source oss-maintainers documentation
The secret recipe to getting your Pull Requests reviewed (and merged) faster dev.to May 28, 2024

open-source github oss-maintainers
Collaborate, conquer, & grow: Mastering the art of issue management for open source projects dev.to May 23, 2024

open-source oss-maintainers github
From contributor to maintainer: My journey in open source May 20, 2024

open-source oss-maintainers career
Join Virtual Coffee in the get job ready challenge! dev.to Feb 29, 2024

community career
Join Virtual Coffee in the month of learning challenge! dev.to Jan 31, 2024

community learning
Open source project ideas Jan 24, 2024

open-source community
Join Virtual Coffee in new year, new goals! dev.to Jan 1, 2024

community productivity

2023

🌟 #DEVImpact2023: My end of year reflections dev.to Dec 29, 2023

open-source year-in-review community
How to Add a Table of Contents to Your Article on Ghost freeCodeCamp Dec 1, 2023

ghost writing
How to become a better open source maintainer Nov 30, 2023

open-source oss-maintainers
How to resolve merge conflicts using the merge editor feature on VS Code Nov 22, 2023

git vscode
How to Keep Branches Up-to-Date and Resolve Merge Conflicts in GitHub and VS Code freeCodeCamp Nov 22, 2023

open-source beginner
Building your brand as a developer through open source Nov 21, 2023

open-source career personal-brand
Hacktoberfest 2023: First experience as a maintainer dev.to Oct 20, 2023

hacktoberfest oss-maintainers open-source
Hacktoberfest23: The 5th year contributor dev.to Oct 19, 2023

hacktoberfest open-source
Ayu's Hacktoberfest 2023 pledge dev.to Oct 1, 2023

hacktoberfest open-source
Hacktoberfest 2023: Let's make positive impacts, learn & grow together in open source! dev.to Oct 1, 2023

hacktoberfest open-source community
How important is a Code of Conduct in an open source project? dev.to Sep 26, 2023

open-source code-of-conduct community
How to Contribute to Open-Source Projects – Git & GitHub Workflow for Beginners freeCodeCamp Sep 22, 2023

open-source beginners guide
How to Contribute to Open Source Projects – Non-Technical Things You Should Know freeCodeCamp Sep 14, 2023

open-source beginners guide
#100DaysOfOSS recap: Day 28-50 Sep 11, 2023

open-source github community
Open source and Git glossary Aug 30, 2023

open-source git beginner
#100DaysOfOSS recap: Day 15-27 Aug 18, 2023

open-source github community
How to communicate better in open source Aug 14, 2023

open-source community
#100DaysOfOSS recap: Day 1-14 Aug 7, 2023

open-source github community
Building portfolio with Next.js: Add navbar, footer, and metadata Jul 20, 2023

nextjs portfolio
Building portfolio with Next.js: Migrate to App Router Jul 19, 2023

nextjs portfolio
How to install pnpm with npm on Windows 11 Jul 12, 2023

package-managers
Building portfolio with Next.js: Add pages Jul 11, 2023

nextjs portfolio
Building portfolio: Install Next.js and Tailwind with pnpm Jul 10, 2023

nextjs portfolio package-managers
Which package managers? dev.to Jul 7, 2023

package-managers
Getting back to coding with learning and building in public Jul 5, 2023

mental-health career learning
Tips from a shy introvert: How to engage and get more involved in a community Jan 10, 2023

community networking

2022

What makes you stay in a community? Nov 30, 2022

community
7 supportive tech communities you want to be part of Nov 29, 2022

community networking career
Planning and tracking projects with GitHub's projects tool Nov 26, 2022

github agile productivity
Audio media accessibility: How to improve audio media transcriptions Nov 23, 2022

accessibility
I learned about audio media accessibility (and more!) from improving tech podcast transcriptions Nov 14, 2022

accessibility hacktoberfest open-source
Collective NaNoWriMo: Let's write together! Nov 9, 2022

writing blogging community
Mini portfolio: Bring your GitHub profile to the next level Sep 12, 2022

github portfolio
What I learned from collaboration in building an e-commerce product page Sep 3, 2022

pair-programming community
How to get unstuck in coding with the power of community Aug 27, 2022

community career learning
Failing is not failure — what I learned from failed interviews Aug 22, 2022

career
Should developers put themselves out there? dev.to May 5, 2022

career personal-brand
Turn your blog post into a virtual talk May 3, 2022

blogging writing career
Guide to asking questions about code Apr 15, 2022

beginner learning community
Tech is for everyone. don't let people tell you otherwise Apr 13, 2022

diversity career
Learn accessibility dev.to Mar 22, 2022

accessibility learning
Nevertheless, Ayu coded in 2022 and learned much more dev.to Mar 9, 2022

year-in-review community career
How to use GitHub for project collaboration — based on Agile method Mar 4, 2022

github agile pair-programming
How to fetch a contribution branch to test it locally as an open source maintainer Feb 24, 2022

git github oss-maintainers open-source
Git: How to fetch a branch from the upstream to the local repo in 5 steps Feb 14, 2022

git github

2021

My 2021 review: The growing pains Dec 31, 2021

year-in-review career
What I learned from project collaboration with the collab lab Dec 1, 2021

pair-programming agile community
Emmet abbreviation for JSX in VSCode is unstable dev.to Nov 25, 2021

vscode jsx react
Chill & learn: How to begin thinking like a programmer dev.to Nov 22, 2021

beginner learning
My impression of Polywork as a web developer and a technical blogger Nov 18, 2021

career personal-brand
What I learned from Hacktoberfest 2021 Nov 2, 2021

hacktoberfest open-source
Contributing to open source 101 Oct 29, 2021

open-source hacktoberfest beginner
First week of the Hacktoberfest: 8 top questions around Git Oct 12, 2021

hacktoberfest git open-source
Hashnode bootcamp IV: Personal thoughts and experience Sep 29, 2021

blogging writing
I have been writing a blog for 10 months: Here is my story Sep 28, 2021

blogging writing
How to make changes on a commit in a Pull Request directly on GitHub's website Sep 26, 2021

github git
Why ethics in contributing to open source matters Sep 20, 2021

open-source community
Building habits to be healthier developers Sep 15, 2021

productivity mental-health career
A letter for you, future me. Aug 10, 2021

career learning
Project collaboration and pair programming Aug 3, 2021

pair-programming career
Methods vs computed in Vue dev.to Jun 25, 2021

vue javascript
Lesson learned: Massive burnout in learning web development Jun 7, 2021

burnout mental-health learning
Tips for writing good Alt text in HTML May 22, 2021

accessibility html
Core React concept: JSX May 8, 2021

react jsx javascript
Hashnode bootcamp III: Personal experience Apr 24, 2021

blogging writing
How to build an effective developer portfolio Apr 23, 2021

portfolio career
The reasons why I blog (and you should too) Apr 20, 2021

blogging writing
Why developers need to build personal brand Apr 19, 2021

career personal-brand
Vite with React template Apr 6, 2021

react javascript
10+ free and affordable resources to learn frontend web development Mar 20, 2021

web-development beginner learning
10 tips for new self-taught developers in learning to code Mar 13, 2021

beginner learning career
#ChooseToChallenge: Stop underrating stay-at-home moms! Mar 2, 2021

career diversity
Nevertheless, Ayu coded in 2021 and no longer alone! dev.to Mar 2, 2021

year-in-review community career
Why I use and recommend Hashnode Feb 17, 2021

blogging writing
Semantic tags in HTML5: The what and why Feb 9, 2021

html accessibility
How to create a responsive navigation bar with Flexbox and media queries Jan 28, 2021

css html
How to change HTML default format from Nunjucks to HTML5 in VSCode Jan 24, 2021

vscode html
CSS Flexbox: Flex-direction Jan 14, 2021

css
Learning to learn [efficient learning]: Personal implementation in web development Jan 8, 2021

learning productivity
CSS: Media queries Jan 7, 2021

css
Learning to learn [efficient learning]: The techniques Jan 6, 2021

learning productivity
Learning to learn [efficient learning]: The science Jan 5, 2021

learning productivity
Learning to learn [efficient learning]: The pillars Jan 4, 2021

learning productivity
Learning to learn [efficient learning]: The lies Jan 3, 2021

learning productivity
Learning to learn [efficient learning]: The principles Jan 2, 2021

learning productivity

2020

CSS Flexbox: Align-items Dec 26, 2020

css
💌 self-reflection: My letter to 2020 Dec 24, 2020

year-in-review personal
Break tasks into chunks! - an important advice I wish I knew sooner Dec 19, 2020

productivity learning beginner
CSS Flexbox: Justify-content Dec 16, 2020

css
A dip into CSS Flexbox Dec 12, 2020

css
Setting up width of images in CSS Dec 6, 2020

css
Overcoming burnout in programming learning Nov 30, 2020

burnout mental-health learning
ReactDOM.render() Nov 29, 2020

react javascript
When should you start to write a (technical) blog? Nov 23, 2020

blogging writing
Contributing to an open source by a first-timer (part 1) Nov 21, 2020

open-source git beginner
Contributing to an open source by a first-timer (part 2) Nov 21, 2020

open-source git beginner
CSS unit: Em Nov 16, 2020

css
Finding networks & communities Nov 9, 2020

networking community career
CSS units Nov 8, 2020

css
How to move existing & store future local MongoDB data from one drive to another (hard) drive - Windows 10 Jul 18, 2020

databases
Move MongoDB local data to another hard drive - Windows 10 dev.to Jul 18, 2020

databases
Upgrading pgAdmin 4 for PostgreSQL 12 (Windows 10) Jul 13, 2020

databases
How I got into learn to code Jul 12, 2020

career beginner learning