As week 12 of this learning journey comes to a close, I couldn’t be happier with the areas I got to practice and improve on. From fears when using git rebase to learning how impatience can be a positive thing, my Git mentors helped me work on both tech and soft skills, while the WiresharkContinue reading “Time to wrap up!”
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Career Goals
How to remain an active community member after Outreachy? This is the question I find myself asking in my head more and more often these days. Open Source contributions can be as flexible or as time-consuming as you let them be, but once you’ve established initial rapport and set a pace, how best to keepContinue reading “Career Goals”
“Modifying Expectations”
Talk about being slow… As a person with lots of hand problems (thanks grandma, thanks mom!), typing has become increasingly laborious over the years, yet this is one more story where the responsibility of the problem lies more in my head than anywhere else. But, hey, as long as my hands don’t hurt, can’t complain!!Continue reading ““Modifying Expectations””
“Think about your audience”
When I first saw Git’s and Wireshark’s joint project description for Outreachy, I immediately knew I wanted to get involved. As a junior developer, I’ve been using Git since the 1st year of my studies, and as a DNS privacy advocate, I’m familiar with research and articles that used Wireshark in their packet inspection, yetContinue reading ““Think about your audience””
“Everybody struggles”
…and everybody overlooks things some times! I had been intensely staring a dissector implementation of over a year ago, trying so hard to figure out why any of the changes I was writing were not showing up in any of the captured dumps and txts I was reviewing. Thought I was missing something important inContinue reading ““Everybody struggles””