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 My other corners of the Internet: https://mastodon.social/@bashbunni https://github.com/bashbunni https://twitter.com/sudobunni https://twitch.tv/bashbunni https://discord.com/invite/Y3vbKS4K9j Affiliate Links: https://biosteel.com/biosteelbunni My keyboard: https://www.keychron.com/products/keychron-q1-he-qmk-wireless-custom-keyboard?ref=BASHBUNNI 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 #opensource #programminglife #programming