Understanding Any Programming Project from an Open Source Maintainer's Perspective

Creating a project is challenging and fun, while maintaining the project is where you figure out what tech debt REALLY means. It can be a great way to sharpen your skills as a developer and learn from previous developer's designs and implementations. It can also be incredibly overwhelming to jump into a new codebase head first.

Bashbunni can often be found hopping between up to ten different programming projects in the span of a week. This is what she's learned along the way.

Related links:
https://sourcegraph.com/search

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https://mastodon.social/@bashbunni
https://github.com/bashbunni
https://twitter.com/sudobunni
https://twitch.tv/bashbunni
https://discord.com/invite/Y3vbKS4K9j

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Chapters:
0:00 the struggle bus
0:38 get good with your tools
0:59 fighting with doom emacs
1:25 how I search a codebase
1:59 SOS: no documentation or tests
2:23 programmer's chicken scratch
2:33 example notes
2:50 helping future bunni
3:03 summary
3:35 byebye

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