A Day in the Life of an Open Source Developer

Just sharing the average day of an open source developer.
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[@geeshta]

"If people don't see commit every 30 minutes, they assume the project has been abandoned" too real xD

[@z4m01]

That and number of stars are my main decision factor to use a library.

[@justanotherhotguy]

@@z4m01 And the amount of forks matter, too.

[@aarriikknn33ll]

@Milan Rory doint fall for this shit kids

[@OfficialGOD]

Scammers

[@mybuttsmellslikebutterbut207]

I don’t understand people who contribute to open source. If you are good at something why do it for free.

[@tanmaydeshpande]

You don't have dark mode in your house? Not a real developer

[@Berkeli]

you obviously haven't tried filming

[@eric-id6bk]

@@Berkeli you obviously haven't tried sarcasm

[@benyamynbrkyc]

@@eric-id6bk ooof the ratio on this one

[@eric-id6bk]

@@benyamynbrkyc biiiig ratio

[@willinton06]

If you turn on any light at my place my dog will bite you

[@jmaclained]

"deep into the night maybe around 7pm". LMAO

[@rooth4259]

It is well-known that Ben is an early riser and doesn't like to be a zombie.

[@randerins]

Me coding in *unpopular language* at 3 am on Sunday to Monday: *dead person emoji*

[@everyhandletaken]

Your sarcasm is some of the finest, very enjoyable 👌🏻

[@2222974Vairus]

Next level 😂

[@Alex-gw9js]

Even TechLead is trying to be more sarcastic than the man himself "Ben react.js Awad"

[@aqwvel98]

Sarcasm?

[@everyhandletaken]

@@aqwvel98 we can call it something else if you like, but it is brilliant nonetheless

[@reeceward5573]

I was in tears when you said it closes your own pull requests

[@yashojha5033]

it was a bug. 😂

[@mcnamaraky]

Me too lol.

[@nac9880]

My sides lol

[@SuboptimalEng]

No one: Not a single dev: Ben Awad: Make sure my *BACKEND* is ro-*BUST* 🍑

[@SwapnilSoni]

2:50 when you realize your last commit broke the entire app

[@mohdsalmanansari5992]

Gawd sab jagah

[@SwapnilSoni]

@@mohdsalmanansari5992 noUUU

[@eeebeltran5445]

@@mohdsalmanansari5992 pls don't be rude

[@AnkitSingh-wq2rk]

especially when you are providing update to already delivered app

[@abhayvaishnav]

Gawd

[@marusdod3685]

"lets see how much damage the contributors did while I was gone" lmao I cant

[@mrsansiverius2083]

>"Open source" >Not using a niche browser developed and maintained by one guy

[@overlisted]

pale moon

[@RosalioRedPanda]

Surf Bois

[@DaCurse0]

>le meme arrow

[@kartikeykushwaha3622]

​@@RosalioRedPanda All Suckless software is awesome except Surf.

[@SapphFire]

Nah that's what "Free software" developers use.

[@AlfredoSequeida]

"I don't like to use any proprietary technologies to wake myself up" 🤣

[@user-rg1jp2us4o]

I love he is about to cry after he says 0:26

[@hectorg362]

Not gonna lie, I was surprised when you mentioned you went to the gym. Props mane, go get those gains.

[@crhistianramirez9471]

And you can tell he actually goes because his squat form was not bad. surprised pikachu

[@shikharraje]

Dat perfect squat form tho. Next project = VSCode + something for lifters?

[@akinaguda]

Plot twist: Tap water is also proprietary

[@blyaticon8190]

*Europe has entered the chat*

[@shivanshpratap3624]

@@blyaticon8190 LOL 🤣🤣

[@hytalefanboi7471]

The sarcasm is so advanced I don't even know what's serious and what isn't

[@averagepickleballplayer]

Just woke up and saw this haha. Literally How my day goes 😂 Also no one’s gonna say it do I will...Great form on your squat!

[@user-cj3yu9nv1u]

Inaccurate, over 50% of the video isn't eating.

[@passivecryptoearnings3605]

I only eat like twice a day so idk guess it depends on your dependencies

[@rikfomiharbi6077]

from 1:10 to 1:45 it was like a loop video of him moving his head and start yawning and repeat it again XD

[@schafferluke]

lol him coding at different speeds prolly -- looks like a splice

[@The-Dev-Ninja]

yes, 3 times

[@mcnamaraky]

This is definitely one of your best videos. Very dense on the laughs: a lot of laughs/second. Well done.

[@abhayvashokan5580]

"For breakfast I use my weekly open source stipend that Microsoft sends me to purchase some tap water" 🤣🤣 You just killed me XD...

[@RameshKumar-mv3jd]

rip in peace

[@wcandillon]

haha that gold's gym shot, finally giving the people what they want 😅

[@blazi_0]

I didnt want that 😔

[@The-Dev-Ninja]

1:21 he is a legend: *overstackflow*

[@jgcodes2020]

"I listen to Karl Marx's communist manifesto" Ben: contributors better not ruin my code The contributors: *our code*

[@BME-dj1ox]

this tbh

[@CodingNuggets]

Always making me laugh. So funny how chill you are even when you are making a joke. Much love and respect Ben.

[@francescociulla]

The internet is a better place now. Especially for developers.

[@Ron-op8es]

Your back-end is looking great ;)

[@rishabhanand4270]

okay so this is true. And I do this. But not at this level. I don't shower.

[@sn3lling]

I don’t have words to explain how much I loved this video, it’s so nerdy that I feel like I transcended this physical plane to a place where all code is bug free 😂

[@passivecryptoearnings3605]

I just love your sense of humor, always watch your videos at least twice.

[@prathmeshvishwakarma9027]

You need to change the GitHub theme rn!!!

[@noahsyb]

GitHub dark is far too dark.. It is somehow worse than light mode to look at.

[@prathmeshvishwakarma9027]

@@noahsyb no...?

[@questtobethebest]

This channel is so far above what one would consider high quality.

[@UncaughtExceptions]

all 420 features should be implemented on 4/20... you're welcome benny.

[@LongBoy.0]

Dude those green squares though, it feels so good to see a full year of Green squares, I think it’s what I want most in life.

[@gcxs]

github light theme?

[@pratyushkumar3829]

The little green squares ig don't give a good contrast in dark mode and it looks awful to look at. Hence, light mode "only for GitHub"

[@Amaraticando]

Dark mode is way too dark. Microsoft should take a lesson from Discord in this regard, all their sites and apps suck in this aspect.

[@xq_nemesis]

@@Amaraticando They can’t make everybody happy. I think Discords’ dark mode is way to bright and should look more like the new Microsoft Teams dark mode, perfect for me!

[@Amaraticando]

@@xq_nemesis to be fair, the background isn't so dark as some other sites, but the contrast with the font is a bit annoying.

[@Amaraticando]

@@xq_nemesis today, Github released a new dark theme with less contrast! Gonna try...

[@uitraek]

I'm dying at the water overflowing the cup in the beginning and I have no idea why.

[@Taffman91]

Your yawning in that timelaps made me lol 😂

[@Wilpsn]

Wow, Ben broke parallel and also used hip drive, nice squat.

[@philipparbeitstein7006]

Loved the video and had a beautiful love. Thank you Ben! But I‘d be really interested in how a day in your life seriously looks like

[@grapy83]

That was a level of sarcasm I've seen just one more time in my whole life. Really awesome.

[@fionanathanson6580]

Awesome I love watching day in the life videos!

[@radoncreepgaming2604]

Just loving this guy, I hope to contribute someday

[@m.minkov]

Not gonna lie, I vibe with this. Also Ben has some good squat depth, wtf when did he get so jacked.

[@Mufti199]

That was some good stuff brother. Good stuff.

[@DanhWasHere]

Deadpan humor done right. Surprised you didn’t mention doing an hour of LeetCode problems as a nice little treat before bedtime.

[@kotel94]

That's a proper squat form, love it!

[@lithium820]

pushing to master and testing in production is the best way to get people for your cause! they will want to fix it and you can sit back and command them arround

[@anshulgoel]

Not only your coding skills, but your sense of humour is also magnificent :D

[@wittstack9611]

Nice Ben. Keep up the great work

[@GameKornel]

What are your thoughts about having two or more monitors? Why do you work with one only? Maybe video about it? :)

[@dylanalexander5163]

AYYYEE BEN IS ASS TO GRASS WITH THE SQUATS. WE LOVE IT

[@mehulambastha2819]

The subtlety of his sarcasm is astonishing

[@phoehtaung]

what is the extension he is using go navigate to links using keyboard? edit: found it guys! it's called Vimari for safari and Vimium for chome/edge

[@pxx2]

the squat looked really good

[@laurelpegnose7911]

Which add-in / browser do you use for jumping to distinct points of the page? Looks quite like Acejump for IntelliJ..

[@chinkath1981]

I hoped to see some open-source T-shirt collection as well which you're proud of

[@tycorcoran8741]

Props for showing up on leg day

[@Nobinobita007]

I like how KZbin decided to throw all of Paolo's videos in my recommendations for watching this one lol

[@alanphilpott863]

00:31 - How to enable those keyboard shortcuts for navigation?

[@thatoneuser8600]

Real talk though, open source mostly forces asynchronous code reviews, making it take longer to accept code and thus merge conflicts might appear more often as the code evolves in a state a pull request might not have been built for. Is this just the inherent trade-off for more people to be able to work on it? Or do pull requests really do get often accepted as soon as possible (because I doubt it). Also, who maintains the automated tests to build upon the test suite for every feature that gets added? Do the people who contribute often write their own functionality tests that would get merged in as well? It just seems too easy for an open source project to become unorganized and full of long integration phases and code freezes.

[@XDBjoernXD]

Working on the backend....*enter gym*. You had me lauging so hard at this. :D

[@RameshKumar-mv3jd]

Dude, you're funny as hell. P.S. That is one robust backend.

[@aymanmoussaoui1221]

Hi, Thank you for this Useful Content you Provide I Like It. and I Have one Simple Question about Open Source Licenses, I want just know, Can a Documentations Or Articles or Even eBooks in the Web be licensed under Open Source Licenses like Apache-2.0, CERN-OHL2, GPL3+, LGPL3+, MIT, MPL-2.0 ? I am not talking about Creative Commons Licenses, I talk about just this Licenses Wich used for Open Source Hardware, but my Question is just about using them for Documentations an Articles in the Websites, So Thank you very Much.

[@mudrank4184]

DogeHouse is the best thing in world 🌎 rn btw, first?

[@mohmedishak8853]

"Install some dependencies on my face" Lmao, lmao, LMAOOOO 😂😂😂😂

[@grimm5751]

This is actually the best video ever made... too real.

[@devpolo]

What Chrome extension are you using to transform htlm buttons into a keyboard shortcut?

[@Guergeiro]

All of this for free! My house is open source as well, so I don't have to pay rent :D

[@woosix7735]

sent url so i can git clone

[@tcthebeast3804]

Always gotta have the manifesto on hand comrade

[@ankushverma4755]

Flutter 2.0 released a few days back ,provided it targets Web dev , cross platform application(although not a production build I guess) and Mobile developments , do you think it is better to go for Flutter than React Native?

[@marka5968]

We're getting into tech-lead category of videos.

[@toydotgame]

I opened a pr on beurtschipper/Depix to fix the README. It got accepted. I slept well that night knowing that I ended world hunger and cured cancer. Now, it's #8 globally for trending repos on GitHub - and I'm visible there, on trending, saving the souls of everyone who visits Depix's repo. What a hero I am. I am so famous. I have a shrine of Richard Stallman in my bedroom and Linus Torvalds over my [GLORIOUS] Arch Linux PC in my study.

[@dimodimchev7164]

Hey Ben, I was wondering what is the app that you use that brings up these key combination shortcuts on your screen? Are you using iCMD?

[@kukuster]

hey, four eyes. what soft do you use to navigate through links and buttons on a page with a keyboard? Seen here at the beginning of the video (0:30 - 0:36). kindly, ur fan. Btw congrats on 256k fans

[@Avengerie]

0:31 What hotkey do you use to highlight the available combinations so you don't have to use a mouse? Any Windows alternative? Thanks in advance.

[@anhdungle6535]

It's Vimium, you press F to highlight all links available in the view.

[@Avengerie]

@@anhdungle6535 Thank you, very useful.

[@rafaeldietrich8050]

Whats the chrome add on that shows those yellow things to navigate with kb?

[@hglenn2k]

super good squat form ngl

[@sollder1240]

The part with the critical bug killed my lmao

[@jsblade2770]

2:14 oh u ll shower great, l imagined something else there for a sec xd

[@alimodz6253]

He doesn't use that for his face only

[@wodyjowski]

What do you use for those keyboard shortcutes in brower?

[@nirjhardebnath6485]

Best motivational video for 2021

[@carterfang95]

This is hilarious. Glad you showed up in my recommended.

[@dev10shah]

I just installed the repos with most stars ⭐ ! -Ben Awad 2020

[@honbra]

You forgot my “critical security vulnreability” (merging accounts)

[@drax_bs4974]

lmao the sticky note to hide the apple logo killed me

[@diegoabdo2555]

Ben has to make a video maxing out on the three lifts.

[@homelylofi]

All i see is bad comments but i like u ben awad u are great and have knowledge

[@ridhwaans]

how many hrs avg do you spend thinking about code/coding?

[@nullptr_tt]

This is a masterpiece!

[@kettenbach]

You've become the biggest troll in dev. Well played sir. 😍👍

[@Max-xp3tf]

imagine not having a piece of paper to hide your imac camera :'(

[@myname5667]

How do you do the „no mouse navigation“ like in 0:33?

[@ridz4912]

one of the few greater videos to graze the face of the internet !

[@699manuel]

Can someone tell me how does he navigate Github? The little yellow triangles that appear on the different links at minute 0:31 - 0:35

[@laurentbajrami3688]

When in doubt, push to master

[@whigmalwhim4760]

I like that you had to hide the fact that you use MacOs with a post it note

[@user-yd7db3wd7w]

Every fcking video It marvelous me what a genius he is

[@AliKoca-ds1vv]

I want make pull request to github projects. Are you can give a bit information about pull request?

[@ultrahalf]

who else taped the branding LMAO

[@chocolatejellybean2820]

Can anyone explain how Dev is different now to 20 years back when I was software engineer. Am gettjng back into Dev temporarily like the last few months. It seems a weird place a lot more autonomy, a lot more libraries and modularisation. Also a lot more async stuff and deployment options.

[@justanotherhotguy]

You forgot the part where you commit one line edits XD

[@skanda2186]

This video is the manifestation of the stress that DodgeHouse releases in this person.