I’m not just a PHP developer but also a PHP developer.
One of my greatest achievments in life was seeing someone explain my contribution in a blog post on PHP 8.1 or 8.2.
I have a couple of very minor commits in Linux and, in the 3.0 era, had my name at the top of a source file for a platform that never saw the light of day and was later removed wholesale.
Still feel that invisible feather in my cap.
I often wonder if that 4 or 5 year old girl who became the youngest contributor to the Linux kernel went on to develop software and if she will put it on her résumé.
In all fairness, even the smallest contributions can be valuable. Well, as long as the contributor actually does something useful, and doesn’t just farm “fake” contribs.
Fixed a mediawiki maintenance script via a 2 char change last week.
doesn’t just farm “fake” contribs
Like comment edits that have nothing but formatting changes.
DRIVE-BY: Fix typo in comment (teh -> the)Oh, yeah I’m a Linux kernel contributor now
If that happens occasionally it doesnt bother me, what really grinds my gears is “Added second space after colon for readability” 874749574839 times. Its clearly being done to make it appear like they have done something of value and hoping it will just get approved without thought.
