Today I learned:
How to contribute to an open-source project on Github
- Fork a project
- Make the changes, commit, and push back up to Github.
- Go to the repo on Github you want to propose a change to.
- On the page: Choose your branch. Compare and review. Create pull request.
Pulling Reddit data with Python
- Connect to Reddit and grab data with PRAW
- Store the retreived information in a MySQL database with PyMySQL
The above two items came together in one learning experience. I helped Seth Millerd debug a Python script he was working on (with considerable help from Eric Davis!). It is the first public repo I’ve contributed to, and the first time I’ve made a pull request. We use git at work, but we use a shared repo model instead of the fork & pull model.
Image scaling quirks with flexbox
Eric Davis and I ran into a strange CSS issue where an image was scaling in a funky way when we resized the browser. The height was staying fixed while the width was changing, but there was nothing in the CSS setting a specific height.
It turns out that one of the parent <div>s had display: flex; flex-direction: column; specified for layout order purposes, and when we turned that off the problem went away. So then we went searching and the quick-and-dirty fix is wrapping the image in a vanilla <div>. That is working for us for now, but I want to read through the W3 docs and see if there is something bigger we are missing or if this is a known bug.
