The Importance of Open Source
Open source software gives us the opportunity to find community, take on new challenges, and create something that is valuable for our fellow developers.
Open source software gives us the opportunity to find community, take on new challenges, and create something that is valuable for our fellow developers.
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Nobody likes to fail. It can be embarrassing, hard, and a blow to your precious ego. And doesn’t it always seem like when you fail everybody can see it—unlike when you succeed and you’re often looking around going “Oh now nobody is watching?” How annoying. But failure happens. You think you’re capable of doing something … Continued
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