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In this Hasty Treat, Scott and Wes talk about how best to explore and contribute to code on GitHub repos.

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Show Notes

  • 00:25 Welcome
  • 01:42 Sponsor: LogRocket
  • 02:54 Sponsor: Retool
  • 04:33 Topic introduction
  • 06:44 How to get a handle on something new in a library?
  • 10:27 How to contribute to comments
  • 12:55 Looking through Issues
  • 15:01 Looking at Pull Requests
  • 15:43 Check Milestones
  • 17:58 Look at Files Changed tab

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