escaping tutorial hell using open source projects

Learning from other people's projects is the best way to propel your skills forward. In this video, bashbunni argues the case for yoinking existing open source programming projects to make them your own. That's part of the beauty of open source. Leveraging existing codebases for your own projects is a skill that will take you far in your career as a software engineer.

If you'd like to share your projects for me to review on video, you can leave them as a comment on this video. I'd love to know a bit about why you built it, if you're looking for more contributors, and a link to the project. Hopefully we can get some more eyes on your projects and give you some good feedback!
-bashbunni

My other corners of the Internet:
mastodon.social/@bashbunni
github.com/bashbunni
twitter.com/sudobunni
twitch.tv/bashbunni (not very active atm)
discord.com/invite/Y3vbKS4K9j

Chapters:
0:00 we have a problem...
0:30 when to reinvent the wheel
0:55 coming up with project ideas
1:27 this is better than tutorials
2:09 less pressure
3:20 why I share what I'm learning
3:43 perfectionism & greenfield projects
5:30 takeaways & bullying rust users
5:45 share what you're working on!