Published Elixir Library

Recently, I published the library, moviematch, on Hex. I was working on this, on and off. Sometimes motivation was up and sometimes down, but that's Ok i guess. Here is a post I wrote about creating this library. 

It is a small tool, with a "Scratch your own itch" kind of purpose. It is still very basic, will be iterating over some time. 

If you maintain the IMDb's watchlist, try this out. If you have any ideas for the feature or found some bug, please do add issues in GitHub.

Feature request for python's requests library

Recently as apart of day job I had to count the number of API requests were made to keep check of throttling limits. As a standard for python codebase, requests library has been used.
I wrote some code which will maintain the API URLs and their respective counts.
That got thing done.

After a while I realized, there should be a way to intercept the request. Just like in there is middleware in Django for request. Then checked the documentation of requests and found event-hooks.

Going through the docs found out that hook is available only for response.  And they have intentions to add other hooks as well mentioned in TODO.
Found this opportunity to contribute one of the best libraries of python and without any delay I created github issue

Hopefully library maintainers will have a look and will add as a feature request officially.

hello world in open source

More recently i have contributed to an open source project. There is a little story behind that.

Contributing accidentally
One late night i was going through the one of the article , quite interesting one. The article explain how there are social platform bots behave as human and what are the cons of such. The article was informative , i learned about the possible use case of machine learning.

Once done with article, my curiosity led me to find if there is any library or something which can determine if post by an social account is a bot or not. Being Back-end developer you think that way, can't help it.

I found this botornot-python library. I installed the library and tried it out. And then i went through the source code of that, i found one little stuff which can be done in better way. Next step was to fix that and open a pull request keeping finger crossed. :)
The owner of the library gladly accepted contribution, thanks to him.

And it was my first open source contribution, hurray !!!.  I felt so exited and satisfied since from long time i have been looking for that moment.

Motivation
Its about contributing to make project better with best of my ability and to learn from open source community.

Keep it going
As they say best place to look for project to contribute are the ones which you are already using.
faker is a interesting library that i have been using from long time for writing unit tests. After about a week or so i contributed to the same project,  joy was more this time.

So this how i started my open source contribution, thanks for reading.