{"id":1868,"date":"2016-06-04T09:29:38","date_gmt":"2016-06-04T16:29:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/zackmdavis.net\/blog\/?p=1868"},"modified":"2016-06-04T09:29:38","modified_gmt":"2016-06-04T16:29:38","slug":"pose","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/zackmdavis.net\/blog\/2016\/06\/pose\/","title":{"rendered":"Pose"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/zackmdavis.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/stable_features_version_lint_before_and_after.png\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/zackmdavis.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/stable_features_version_lint_before_and_after-300x151.png\" alt=\"stable_features_version_lint_before_and_after\" width=\"300\" height=\"151\" class=\"alignright size-medium wp-image-1869\" srcset=\"http:\/\/zackmdavis.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/stable_features_version_lint_before_and_after-300x151.png 300w, http:\/\/zackmdavis.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/stable_features_version_lint_before_and_after.png 700w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a>I used to look down on posers who submit some contrived one-off trivial patch to a big, famous project like Django or whatever, sheerly for the glamor and ego-gratification of being able to say, &quot;<em>I'm<\/em> a contributor to <em>Django<\/em>.&quot; I thought that if it wasn't a fix that you needed for your own work and you're not going to be a seriously involved contributor, it's more dignified to only work on your personal projects (which would be more authentic) or some non-super-famous but still widely-used library (which would have more socially-useful unfinished work left).<\/p>\n<p>Then I landed <a href=\"https:\/\/github.com\/rust-lang\/rust\/commit\/06c9e0f5\">a patch<\/a> in the Rust compiler.<\/p>\n<p>And it is <em>so ego-gratifying<\/em>!! But maybe now I have to submit a bunch more patches in order to prove\u2014in order to <em>be<\/em>\u2014a seriously involved contributor rather than a mere poser??<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I used to look down on posers who submit some contrived one-off trivial patch to a big, famous project like Django or whatever, sheerly for the glamor and ego-gratification of being able to say, &quot;I'm a contributor to Django.&quot; I &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/zackmdavis.net\/blog\/2016\/06\/pose\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[75],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/zackmdavis.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1868"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/zackmdavis.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/zackmdavis.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/zackmdavis.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/zackmdavis.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1868"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"http:\/\/zackmdavis.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1868\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1874,"href":"http:\/\/zackmdavis.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1868\/revisions\/1874"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/zackmdavis.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1868"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/zackmdavis.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1868"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/zackmdavis.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1868"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}