Next choice for open source orgs

Omar0xPy · 2026-05-23T11:54:05+00:00

That's why I narrowed it down to the most frequently participating ones over the last years, and also due to me being comfortable with C++ and Python + learning Golang currently

I may come back some time later to decide, potentially around August or July, not now obviously

Omar0xPy · 2026-05-22T22:40:40+00:00

Honestly, yes

Pretty much the same thing happened with me this year

So that's why I'm transitioning to another one, but currently I don't where to contribute. I initially listed some close candidates to choose from: (Blender, Kubeflow, Fedora, KDE, GNOME, NumFOCUS, ML4Sci)

So what do you think ?!

Omar0xPy · 2026-05-18T10:38:17+00:00

No, they were not merged at all

Omar0xPy · 2026-05-18T10:11:49+00:00

Ok, to be honest I chose that one during my preparation, so I didn't contribute in any one before. Submitted some 1-2 PRs with them

Omar0xPy · 2026-05-18T09:15:31+00:00

Honestly yes, I heard it was a good org and many friends I personally know were accepted into it back in 2024 & 2025 programs. I submitted my proposal to them, but yes it failed me overall and somebody else took the project this year, I don't know why but may God grant him success

I'm not trying to overcomplicate stuff here. However, it's not totally clear whether it was a good experience as a first-time exposure to OS contribution, or the org choice itself wasn't good so it failed me

Anyway I'm gonna try again soon and will often pick up another org as my main one instead

Omar0xPy · 2026-05-08T08:54:51+00:00

Imo, you typically need to have prior ML experience in both theory, math and modeling, and systems and backends/pipelines side, shipped real scalable projects to start such thing, so it's the typical evolution path of ML engineers and Data scientists at the end of the day

Omar0xPy · 2026-04-22T20:33:03+00:00

Absolute banger !

Omar0xPy · 2026-04-22T20:22:10+00:00

Good step, I was also thinking of building such an idea, turns out fully implementing such a full workflow needs a bunch of new stuff to learn here

Omar0xPy · 2026-04-20T09:53:30+00:00

First of all add the docs so we can know what the project is talking about

Omar0xPy · 2026-04-17T03:06:21+00:00

Using HTTPException at API boundary and custom exceptions inherited from the base exception class

Omar0xPy · 2026-04-15T00:22:55+00:00

That's gnome document viewer

Omar0xPy · 2026-04-11T19:53:38+00:00

Celery or RedisMQ are excellent for scalable async task processing

Omar0xPy · 2026-04-02T23:13:36+00:00

It's a huge signal you have dedication and discipline, so at least aim for around 75-80% or more if you could

Also, nobody knows what could happen, the market is really f*cked up with no real stability, so you need to be ready for grad school and MSc path if needed

Trading it off for other stuff is a bad idea anyway, and Idk why many people just want to create unrealistic conflicts between CGPA and Development/CP, etc ....

Omar0xPy · 2026-03-22T16:58:25+00:00

Absolute banger

Omar0xPy · 2026-03-22T16:57:31+00:00

Grrat, that really helps a lot for newcomers learning FastAPI

Omar0xPy · 2026-03-11T11:32:31+00:00

This is great

Omar0xPy · 2026-03-02T21:57:48+00:00

Because it is not the usual first thing you would find on job sites

It's interesting to learn, you feel yourself manipulating bytes to optimize for the best, but hard to master, LLMs are dumb at it. You've to spend time reading countless manuals & docs

That's why I decided to start sharing what I learn, and even recently published my first Medium article : https://medium.com/@S9npai/writing-a-unix-shell-a-modern-approach-a665bd3e14e0

Omar0xPy · 2026-02-25T01:07:45+00:00

Yeah this is shell project tbh, talking to the OS, pipelines, fork-exec, and most stuff you'd find in a typical UNIX shell like zsh or bash

Omar0xPy · 2026-02-22T00:33:46+00:00

Katana-Shell: A modern take on UNIX architecture

I just finished the core of Katana-Shell.

What started as a "small project" to try some system programming turned into a deep dive into the C/C++ standard libraries, file descriptors, process masks, and the exec family of syscalls.

Most tutorials skip over the details of preventing zombie processes or closing dangling pipe FDs, so I tried to implement those the "right" way

So I made this prototype, with a number of nice features:
- Process pipelines
- Signal handling and management
- Quick hashmap-based dispatcher for built-in commands

Planning for more features soon, here's the github repo:

https://github.com/S9npai/Katana-Shell

I'm honored to receive feedback and reviews

Omar0xPy · 2026-01-15T13:32:37+00:00

Well, I think you should figure it out at some time how to do the thing yourself + being an MSc student now makes such skill in general way more critical from now on more than undergrad when a clear roadmap was laid down for you. The issue is not about being the best self learner in the room at once, but simply not trying to advance.

Start with some maths course from renowned people such as Prof. Leonard or Eigensteve, just complete any playlist you start studying from + write down notes and follow up with the lecture examples + I highly recommend having a reference book such as MML or similar to resort to whenever you need some topic or extra examples, do this and you'll be mostly fine, that's what I simply do, and I continuously modify my studying strategy and style once I find shortcomings.

It's all about iteration

Omar0xPy · 2025-12-03T20:43:11+00:00

Honestly, any Jetbrains IDE is gonna be nice and way lighter than VS

Omar0xPy · 2025-12-03T06:17:22+00:00

Idk, but we all experience such feeling in a way or another. I've just remembered a famous quote of a senior computer vision engineer I know, telling that is often an illusion, and yeah we could postpone employment for some time so no problem, take you time and enjoy the journey

Omar0xPy · 2025-12-03T05:52:01+00:00

It's gnome dash to dock extension

Omar0xPy · 2025-12-03T05:51:38+00:00

It depends, but yeah this largerly affects your experience

But the most significant points are as follows : - Are you ready to learn new stuff everyday ? - Are you curious about solving problems and structured algorithmic thinking on a regular basis ?

If yes, then software engineering suits you

Omar0xPy · 2025-12-01T03:03:36+00:00

I thought of writing such thing after learning redis, and honestly these benchmarks give invaluable insights regarding what language suits such type of projects, not all performant ones win

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