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15th March 2022 - Link Blog

Contributing to Complex Projects (via) Mitchell Hashimoto describes in detail his process for understanding and eventually contributing to a complex new codebase. I picked up a whole bunch of useful tips from this.

Posted 15th March 2022 at 6:09 am

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