Into Open Source with Khang Nguyen

I used to think that my Vietnamese language capability would never serve me in the field of Software Development. To be fair, at least not while I am studying at an English-speaking country and not when most programming documentations are done in English (even programming languages' keywords are in English). I could not be more wrong! Two weeks ago, I blogged about my effort to open a new translation for GatsbyJS documentation to Vietnamese  which I have been really excited about. Since then, the translation repository has been moving forward with some first translations published: [Merged] Contribution Guideline - from me [Merged] Community Code of Conduct - from a contributor [Merged] Tutorial Index - from a contributor who is also a classmate [Reviewing] Tutorial, Set up Development Environment - from me [In Progress] Tutorial, Get to Know Gatsby Building Blocks - from the same classmate above  To accomplish those first translat

Project Telescope - a web app for tracking blogs in orbit around Seneca's open source involvement - started more than a month ago has shown a lot of progress while getting contributions from many students including me working mostly in the aspect of developer experience. It is amazing to me how far we have gone with many people put in their effort a little bit here and there. Last 2 Weeks Recap Two weeks ago, I posted  about the integration of ESLint, Prettier and EditorConfig into the project and was waiting for everyone's codes to come in before I can run re-formatting on the entire codebase. Two days later, after a productive hand-on meeting with my professor, the PR landed with code styling in the entire codebase uniformed under 1 format and me learning a few useful things. The first thing I picked up during the meeting is the set up of a script to run prettier on selected code modules using npm . { " name " : " telescope " , " versi