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Contributing to Open Source Best Practices from the Major League Hacking Fellows

Recently, we asked some of the Major League Hacking (MLH) Fellows what tools and practical applications they found to be useful for getting started contributing to open source. Check out what they have to say about getting started in open source, the MLH Fellowship program, and the Facebook Open Source ecosystem.On Open Source Contributions “It's a...

Open Source 2021

June 14, 2021

ELI5: Flipper - Cross-Platform Debugger

In this blog post, we briefly look at a popular open source project called Flipper, an extensible mobile app debugger for iOS, Android and React Native. We discuss this open source project using the ELI5 style of explaining things in simple terms and in the shortest amount of time. If you prefer to learn by watching, we also have an accompanying ...

Open Source 2021

June 8, 2021

VISSL: A Contributor’s Story with Grace Omotoso

The “Contributor’s Story” series is intended to provide a face and voice to our major open source contributors and community members, an overview of the projects they are working on, and the successes and challenges contributors face when developing. ...

Open Source 2021

June 7, 2021

Meet the Rustaceans: Neil Mitchell

This article was written in collaboration with Neil Mitchell, a Software Engineer at Facebook. For today’s interview, we have Neil Mitchell who is a Software Engineer on the Build Infrastructure team at Facebook. The Build Infrastructure team works on build systems such as Buck. While working on this team, Neil has been using Rust as one of the...

Open Source 2021

June 3, 2021

WebXR: A Contributor’s Story with Soham Parekh

Open Source 2021

June 1, 2021

Docusaurus: A Contributor’s Story with Steven Hansel

Open Source 2021

May 25, 2021

ELI5: Folly - Battle-Tested C++ Library

In this blog post, we explore a popular open source project called Folly, a C++ library that provides core components used extensively at Facebook. We cover this open source project using the ELI5 style of explaining things in simple terms in the shortest amount of time. If you prefer to learn by watching, we also have an accompanying video about...

Open Source 2021

May 24, 2021

Pysa: A Contributor’s Story with Grace Gao

Open Source 2021

May 18, 2021

Meet the Rustaceans: Pedro Rittner

This article was written in collaboration with Pedro Rittner, a Production Engineer at Facebook. For today’s interview, we have Pedro Rittner who is a Production Engineer on the Device Integration, Assessment, and Grokking team at Facebook. The Device Integration, Assessment and Grokking team develops core hardware tooling and automation frameworks...

Open Source 2021

May 13, 2021