I couldn't find a space to talk about coding agents, Codex, and their extensions like Skills, MCPs, and Plugins. Would anyone know of such spaces? (May not be limited to Reddit)
Finding B1/B2 appointments have been a nightmare in India. I've lost way too many family events because I don't have my tourist visa. I have the golden visa from UAE but the looking for a slot there ha been nothing short of a nightmare given the recent happenings.
I'm curious about whether there are certain months when it is difficult to find slots (pan india), and months where getting a slot is relatively easier.
I'd highly appreciate your insights on any patterns you may have found in the recent years.
Few gists from my experience at the exam hall:
I as a person do not enjoy art but that's exactly what my speaking was about. I work as a PM and speak a lot, but the topic completely threw me off. For those taking the exam, please practice speaking on topics you absolutely despise
I practiced meditation to improve my magikarp level attention span. My first mock was a 6 because my mind kept wandering off.
For Reading, the strategy was to simply skim through and read the questions first. Completely different from GRE/GMAT. I finished my reading with around 20 minutes to spare, I used this time to write down sentences I found interesting from the reading text (they took that paper away before the actual writing section).
But this helped reinforce good writing habits right before the writing test. IELTS academy YT videos we're super helpful, watched around 8 of them during my prep week.
My dev-tool startup recently got funded, and I'm the CEO. Before that, I was an SDE at various F500 companies and built software (3+ YOE).
My product is open-source and self-hosted. I would like a few tips from DevRels on organic marketing channels and how to improve my tool's visibility. This is an infrastructure tool with a bottom-up funnel, and the target users are DevOps engineers or AI-DevOps engineers.
We had a spike in users from Hacker News, and that's really what got us funded.
I would appreciate suggestions on other channels I should explore and tips on how to use these platforms to their fullest. I know this is a niche ask, and I couldn't find a more appropriate subreddit to ask. If you're a developer or a DevOps engineer, please let me know where you hang out the most.
If you're looking out on getting your first PRs merged into an open source repository or looking to join popular open source programs like GSoC or LFX.
We are holding a workshop on best practices and things to avoid when getting started.
We are fellow developers who owe a lot of our careers to open source giving back. This is a FREE workshop and affiliated to an open source non profit repository.
Just drop your interest below or reach out to me directly and I'll share the link. The workshop is at 6pm IST on Saturday!
I've been building a project for a long time, and amazing members of this community have been contributing code to it in their free time.
I've always felt guilty about not being able to reward the folks who have been spending significant time building large features. That will no longer be the case. I'm happy to announce that the project has now received grants, and we are establishing an open collective of approximately 2k USD per month to reward the best contributors for their contributions.
Thank you so much to all of you for making this possible. If you're a seasoned software engineer who likes to contribute outside your work, or a beginner looking to get started with open source, this would be the best place for you.
My project presently has 1M downloads, 2.5k stars on GitHub, and usage in over 15 companies. ARR is presently zero, as we have not monetized anything.
My investor told me to go to SF and raise uncapped SAFE notes from prominent angel investors in the space (e.g., CEOs/CTOs of Series C+ startups) and have them implement my platform at their companies. I am flying in this October.
However, I wonder how this process works; why would anyone want to give uncapped SAFE notes over priced notes? Is this normal in the pre-seed stage?
FYI, I raised from a prominent specialized investor as part of an accelerator program.
Space: DevTools/Infra/Enterprise AI
I've been building a project for a long time, and amazing members from this community have been contributing code there in their free time.
I've always felt guilty about not being able to reward the folks who have been spending significant time building large features. That will no longer be the case. I'm happy to announce that the project has now received grants and we are now establishing an open collective of approximately 2k USD per month to reward the best contributors for their share of the work(This will begin in October once the funds are wired).
Thank you so much to all of you for making this possible. If you're a seasoned software engineer and like to contribute outside of your work or a beginner looking to get started with open source, this would be the best place for you to be at.
If you're looking out on getting your first PRs merged into an open source repository or looking to join popular open source programs like GSoC or LFX.
We are holding a workshop on best practices and things to avoid when getting started.
We are fellow developers who owe a lot of our careers to open source giving back. This is a FREE workshop and affiliated to an open source non profit repository.
Just drop your interest below or reach out to me directly and I'll share the link. The workshop is at 6pm IST on Saturday!
Link will come in discord.observal.io (copy paste this in your browser)
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Compiled a list of projects I have been contributing to; do help me expand the list by including yours too. Please mention how many stars and people you have on Discord.
https://github.com/Observal/Observal (2.3k stars, 1.3k discord https://discord.com/invite/SFPjnTWddk)
https://github.com/Garudex-Labs/caracal?ref=producthunt (160 stars, LFDT project)
https://github.com/Ashutoshx7/VengeanceUI (1k stars)
https://github.com/LadybugDB/ladybug (1.5k stars)
https://github.com/jreleaser/jreleaser (1.2k stars)
https://github.com/besu-eth/besu (1.8k stars)
Do Star and Fork the projects if you want to express support. Cheers.
Hey everyone, we are a team of ex GSOCers looking to give back to the community. If you're interested in open source and/or making a career out of software engineering.
We are conducting biweekly workshops to help beginners get started with open source.
Requesting everyone to upvote the post so that more people can benefit from this initiative.
Please drop a comment and share your GitHub username if you're interested in joining.
The workshop is affiliated with a repo too, so you can get started with contributions right away.
My DMs are getting full, so here's the link
Please join discord.observal.io for the workshop.
And star and fork https://github.com/Observal/Observal for this initiative.
OSS development genuinely helped me land my first job through an internal hiring pipeline. Nobody cared about my other solo projects, Instead collaboration across GitHub and my contribution map is what everyone cared about in my case.
It was very funny that my entire startups employee roll was from this one GSoC program. Going forward it helped me crack Cornell for my master's too.
The repo was much smaller when it started, so contributions were easy and getting a hold of the maintainers were not a hassle. The project grew and so did my credibility and profile.
Wondering if anyone else here shares the same experience?
Are there any popular repositories that are run by ex-GSoC members that I can start contributing to? Please don't suggest any new repositories; I would prefer a list of stable, established repositories with at least a few thousand stars.
I assume that this will help me build my network and prepare better for 2027.
Must have:
- Reddit account with more than 600 karma
- 4 hours on-call time commitment, 2 hours in the morning and 2 hours in the evening.
- Must understand how GitHub/Open-source work
- Must have a background in tech; ideal for university students. If you're interested comment and we can take it further.
Drop the coolest skills and MCP and I'll help promote the best Three. I run a discord server with over 1000 engineers all looking to contribute to open source.
Note: The repo MUST be licensed Apache/MIT/GPL/AGPL
Would you be interested in sharing this skill and earning from its usage?
My organisation has been evaluating observal to onboard as a vendor. But I'm not able to find similar tools to compare against, it's always a mix.
My gemini chat trying to compare.
There's this huge graveyard of agents/skills/MCPs sitting ina github repo at my organization. We are asked to stash our best performing coding agents configs there.
My manager encourages me to share my agent configurations there, but I honestly don't want to share it there as no one would use it anyway.
Do the other orgs have this "graveyard agent repo" too?
Hackerrank open sourced their resume screening algorithm, if you missed my earlier post on chasing open source. 35 points(maximum weightage) has been given for open source projects. Proof (https://resume-reality-check-seven.vercel.app/)
If you're a 2027/2028 grad, you need to stop chasing internships and start looking into opensource.
Every employer/masters admission committee/investor asks for GitHub profile and proof of open source work.
Your internship work will be left behind in the organization, but your open source work will carry with you all your life.
There is a community (not for profit, just a bunch of ex-GSoCers giving back), if you're interested in joining the community and attending workshops about getting started with open source. Please upvote, Reply interested and reach out with your GitHub account.
Hackerrank open sourced their resume screening algorithm, if you missed my earlier post on chasing open source. 35 points(maximum weightage) has been given for open source projects.
If you're a 2027/2028 grad, you need to stop chasing internships and start looking into opensource.
Every employer/masters admission committee/investor asks for GitHub profile and proof of open source work.
Your internship work will be left behind in the organization, but your open source work will carry with you all your life.
There is a community (not for profit, just a bunch of ex-GSoCers giving back), if you're interested in joining the community and attending workshops about getting started with open source. Please upvote, Reply interested and reach out with your GitHub account.
Hey everyone, I've built a way through which you can see how people are using your Skills/MCP/Agents etc (without violating privacy ofcourse)
If think you have built something cool, drop a blurb and a link to it. I can feature the best ones on my marketplace. Also mention the compatible harnesses (Claude code/Codex/Pi) etc.
We have 600k downloads and a 1000 member discord community who will be eager to try out what you have built.
