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by jacAtSea 104 days ago
Thank you everyone for your kind comments.

I didn't 'code' or read any CS related for almost a year. I agreed that now I didn't need more 'input' course material, but rather a 'learn and output' way to rebound.

Since last October, I have been using github co-pilot(because its free, unemployed) to write little python project helper for my finance admin and other daily stuff. Initially I had to 'plan' with AI, broke tasks into smaller tasks and modified a few things. I haven't 'written' a single line of code since January as the model is so powerful they can step thru the changes and debugging. Granted this is a very small project.

I aslo think contributions to the opensource projects would be helpful, for the sake of mental health and having 'real' practice.

I am also thinking about might be start with some opensource project that I have used, e.g. like pyarrows, pandas, jupyter for python, and spark for scala. However, I think I am actually more interested in building a system together, rather than writing 'libraries'.

Do you know how I can find one? I had tried searching via google but its not effective. I guess I don't know how.

I have also tried to find 'volunteer jobs' but not very successful. Again, I think I might not know 'where' to look.

I think my mind is still all over the place after the burnout so would need some brain power from the community.

Thank you!

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Pypy is looking for contributors. There was a recent HN post about it.
Thanks for the heads-up.

I have never worked on compiler. More on application level. I did have a lot of benchmarking experience on architecture choice so might be that is a skill I could contribute.