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Claims that tiny time investments matter with numbers: 600–700 PHP questions on Stack Exchange per day, 15 minutes a week from a room of 700 people totals ~9,000 hours a year (379 days). Concrete actions and tools: answering Stack Overflow questions, testing 200+ WordPress patches, filing clear bug reports. Built examples: a one-line Android app fix that compiles and works and a Magento importer pull request that stops table corruption.
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chapters (17)
- 0:00Intro
- 1:20Who am I
- 2:20Who gives back
- 3:27Being too busy
- 4:33Youre not good enough
- 5:22Giving back
- 7:10Giving back without code
- 9:39Stack Overflow
- 11:43Testing
- 13:40Helping others
- 15:23Example
- 16:24Documentation
- 17:35Open Issues
- 18:40Bug Fixing
- 19:44Android App Fix
- 22:58Bug Reporting
- 23:55Summary
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