• TimeSquirrel@kbin.melroy.org
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    25 days ago

    I found a “< 0” comparison instead of a “<= 0” in a conditional check once for someone else’s audio library I was using which caused random lockups in the decoding loop only ever so often when decoding MP3s. It was for a function that removed ID3 data on the fly while decoding and then checked for more to strip out. Took a day to finally pinpoint what was happening, test my change, and then notified the author, who immediately fixed it. It felt great.

    You don’t gotta be a rockstar 10x developer working on 50 projects at once to help out.

  • raina@sopuli.xyz
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    24 days ago

    My first contribution to a complex system was fixing a comment calling an email BCC field CC.

  • kekmacska@lemmy.zip
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    8 days ago

    i translated a cli file compressing tool to my language. No coding, just editing the strings in the source and recompiling