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Today wraps up the completion of the 24-Hour Challenge at the University of Alabama in Huntsville, where our team (skillfully named the “Chicken Bakes”) successfully managed to pull in a 1st-place victory over the 21 teams we competed with 🥳 I couldn’t have made it through this competition without help from the amazing people I had the honor to team up with: Brandon Heng: Your programming skills and API research brought us miles ahead to finishing our product Karlie Sikorski: Your leadership, product design, and UI/UX skills ensured we had a product that people loved using from beginning to end Madison Fama: Your finance and business expertise ensured we made a product that can properly scale and grow to countless heights I also want to give a shout-out to all the teams that we competed with!...

When open source is great I’ve been a developer and maintainer in the open source world for just over two years now, and I’ve got to say that I don’t think there’s much better of an ecosystem that you can be in as a developer/maintainer. Open-source simply encourages so much that makes project development so nice to be in: Issue reporting Having your users report issues on your project is trivial, and things like GitHub make hopping in on issues as simple as opening the issue up and making a comment....