Sunami Dasgupta

Founder

Multiprocessing Muggles•  September 2020 - Present

When most developers talk about open source contributions, they're usually referring to their pull requests and GitHub issues on a gem, framework, or side project. And while this may be a more exciting way to make an open-source contribution, it's certainly not the only way to give back to the programming community. Blogging might not seem as thrilling as giving a technical talk or writing a test for a framework's new feature, but it's a contribution that's both severely lacking and desperately needed in our community. As more and more people learn how to code, they'll all start to run into the same problems. Most of the time, these problems are issues of understanding a language's syntax or grasping a more complex, computer science concept. More seasoned developers have probably already solved these problems, and have a strong conceptual understanding of what causes them. The problem is, even though so many developers understand the concepts and syntax of a language, not all of them write it down. They might mention it in passing to another developer, but their knowledge doesn't exist in a place that's easily accessible by anyone else. This is of a particular disservice to younger developers who might not have access to resources. For some self-taught developers, StackOverflow answers and painful Google searches are the only viable options, and often, that simply isn't enough.