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Sdu

I'm scared of contributing. I'm afraid of finding out that I'm incompetent so when I challenge myself to find a project to contribute to, I end up scrolling on github until I run away. Dare try to talk me into any, I have more excuses than gifs in @ben 's portfolio 🤣

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rhymes

Stop scrolling, contribute to dev.to! :-)

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Sdu

Do I need ruby to do so? I'd need to brush up on it a lot

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rhymes

The backend is in Ruby and Rails, the frontend is in HTML/CSS/JavaScript/React/Preact. The documentation is in English :P

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Andrew Bone

You could submitting a bug report, submit a feature requests or reading over other pull requests to make sure they make sense and that still counts as contributing 🙂

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Sdu

I think with also this approach, I'll understand the 'why' . The 'how' is always the easiest

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Ben Halpern

That was me for years, and now all my code is out there for the world to see. 😳

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Bhupesh Varshney 👾

Happens with me a lot 😅😅

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Molly Struve (she/her)

This was totally me a year ago then I found some things I REALLY needed fixed in a few gems and that is what pushed me to finally do it. That first PR was SO stressful but I did survive and it has gotten a lot easier 😊