james h jackson jr @jameshjacksonjr@librem.one

"How do I get started contributing to open source? What are some good entry-level tasks to work on?"

These are questions I am often asked, so here's the answer for everyone to read:

Scratch your own itches. Find bugs that are causing you problems, conspicuously missing features you would find useful, and implement them - in literally any free/open-source software you're using. Don't worry about not being familiar with the codebase or programming language or whatever, just solve one problem at a time.

Try this: next time you go to report a bug, report it, and immediately start working on a patch which fixes the problem.

Scratching your own itches is the best source of motivation and maximizes your productivity.

Often that means not contributing to my projects at all, if you're asking how to get started with a specific project. Maybe you like it because it's flawless 😉 (hah!), in which case it wouldn't need your help anyway. Go fix something which is bugging you in another project. Spread the contributor wealth around and eventually it'll come back to my projects, too.

Nowadays my #AsusZenfone6 changes outfits more frequently than I do 😳

Congrats to @mntmn on a successful crowd funding campaign. 😊

https://www.crowdsupply.com/mnt/reform

Folks, leave Medium please. That's impossible.

Code Lutin is now an official @ubports sponsor

https://ubports.com/fr_FR/foundation/sponsors

Thanks to @NeoTheThird for all the paperwork he made for the #UBPorts foundation. Now #UBPorts can be supported through @Liberapay

#MécénatCodeLutin

First time booting, the new SailfishOS automatically encrypts the folders, nice! And it also directly asks for and sets a security code, which is also good.
Also, Jolla service successfully disconnected my old device from the account, so that the new one can just pick up and install the Android support and predictive text input right away. Good job, #jolla!

Yesterday I discovered Tuir, a terminal client for Reddit and I couldn't be happier - https://gitlab.com/ajak/tuir. No more frustrating webpage navigation.