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Submitting a PR runs into the most random etiquette expectations from a gatekeeping project maintainer that arbitrarily chooses to not merge

It requires a lot more effort and back and forth than you are describing and its disingenuous. I’m glad you’ve had a good experience with it though.

Writing an automation tool often has nothing to do with the experience and acumen required for a job, it could be a mouse motion recording to a bash script. It requires pure happenstance or contrived altruism to do it in a worse language for the task just to say “see look what I did” for a future employer

I think this requires more empathy, not in an “emotional intelligence” sense just in the concept of putting yourself in other people’s shoes and imagining what they encounter instead thinking what you encounter is normal



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