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Even for capable coders, it is far from easy to just jump into some open source project and fix a bug. Getting familiar with the code, setting up a project to work with your local dev tools (or setting up entirely new tools needed for the project), learning how to test a change (even if the project has existing test coverage), etc.

It's a pretty high barrier, one has to be very motivated to scratch that itch.
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I'm putting together a project to be used as a fun intro to programming -- getting some hands-on coding experience is the real goal, but it is presented as a game.

Started because I was asked to lead an activity on programming for the young men at church. One week down, two more weeks to have it ready. It's a big project (hoping for it to have more life beyond this specific activity), and I'm also learning a lot in the process, it's been a lot of fun so far.

https://github.com/jslade/pro-bots
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I was happy to learn about recent developments in Lightning Terminal last night at Denver BitDevs - especially auto fees and auto opens. Lightning node management has fallen below the threshold of interesting/rewarding for a while.

I still want to keep my node running, but I don't want to think about it. Thanks Rachel / Lightning Labs
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Any #pickleball players here? I love it.

I'm relatively new to racquet sports - a fair bit of racquetball years ago, only played tennis a handful of times. Pickleball is great because it's accessible to beginners, but still a long road to mastery.