The first open source project Steve Klabnik got involved with was a pretty big one – he took on Hackety Hack, the beloved application that helped kids learn to code. He only meant to help out, but when no else joined, he ended up running the show, and diving headfirst into the open source world. Now, many years and pull requests later, Klabnik shares how he went from Hackety Hack to contributing to Rails to working full-time on the Rust language, and gives us a beginner-friendly overview of the open source world and many lessons he’s learned along the way.
Show Links
- Braintree (sponsor)
- Digital Ocean (sponsor)
- Code for America
- The Long Tail
- Summer of Code
- Ryan Seashore
- Sidekiq
- Rust language
- Discourse
- High Five bot
- Code Now
- Survivorship Bias
- Hackety Hack
- _why
Shoutouts
- Sponsored Shoutout: Braintree click for your first $50,000 in transactions fee-free (Saron)
- Sponsored Shoutout: Digital Ocean promo code “CodeNewbie” for $10 credit (Saron)
- Netrunner (Steve)
- If Hemmingway Wrote JavaScript (Steve)
- Ruby Wizardry (Steve)
- Leveraging Open Source – Everything You Wanted to Know About Open Source that Nobody Told You (including getting paid to do it) (Saron)
- Open Hatch (Saron)
- What is Open Source? (Saron)
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