📣 Join the "For the Love of Code" 2025 Celebration!

[ghostinhershell]

GitHub just kicked off For the Love of Code 2025 — a global celebration of open source and the people who power it.

Whether you're a seasoned maintainer, a curious first-timer, or someone who just loves building cool stuff, this is your moment to reflect on what open source means to you and connect with the broader community.

👩🏾‍💻 Here’s how you can take part:

1. Spend an afternoon or the whole summer. Build something joyful: solo, with friends, or with Copilot.
2. Push your code to a public GitHub repository by 11:59 p.m. Anywhere on Earth (AoE)* on September 22, 2025*.
3. Submit your entries via the official submission form.

💬 Sound off below!

• Share your story: What project got you hooked on open source? What’s something you’ve learned from collaborating in the open?
• Shout out a contributor or maintainer you appreciate.
• Reflect on a moment where open source made an impact on your life, work, or learning journey.
• Tell us why you code.

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🧵 Drop your thoughts below

Reply to this thread and tell us: What’s something you’ve built, fixed, or loved in open source lately? Use this space to celebrate, reflect, and inspire.

Let’s celebrate the people behind the code — and the joy that keeps us all coming back to it. 💜

[kamranikramofficial]

"Open source was the cheat code I didn’t know I needed."

I started out just building static sites for school projects, but the moment I pushed my first collaborative repo live and saw someone clone, fork, and improve it — that was the moment it clicked.
Project that hooked me:
A dynamic recipe website I built solo. It was basic — just data from JS objects. But uploading it, getting feedback, and seeing others remix it? Game-changing.

What I’ve learned:
Code isn't precious; it's meant to evolve.
Naming things is harder than writing logic.
Good docs are underrated.
Real dev growth happens in PR comments.

Shoutout to:
All the maintainers who review PRs at midnight, write clean readmes, and welcome beginners like me. You make open source less scary and more human.

Why I code:
To solve real problems. To build cool stuff. To learn out loud. And because the "aha!" moment after fixing a bug at 2AM is unmatched.

Let’s keep pushing each other to create, collaborate, and build things that make the web more open, more fun, and more us.

[DhruvJohri]

Submitted

[abhishek62010]

Open source, for me, has always felt like a massive global hackathon where everyone’s welcome at the table.

Project that got me hooked:
A simple PHP + MySQL blog engine I built in college. At first, it lived quietly on my laptop, but when I uploaded it to GitHub, someone filed an issue suggesting a feature I’d never thought of. That single comment pulled me down the rabbit hole of collaboration, version control, and community-driven improvement.

What I’ve learned from working in the open:

Small commits beat “big bang” releases every time.

The best code reviews are conversations, not checklists.

People remember kindness in PR comments more than clever code tricks.

Shoutout to:
Every contributor who writes test cases for other people’s code, fixes a typo in docs, or answers “beginner” questions without judgement — you keep the open source spirit alive.

Why I code:
Because ideas don’t feel real until they’re built. And because nothing beats the rush of merging a PR that makes something better for people you’ve never even met.

Here’s to building, breaking, fixing, and learning — together. 💜