Tag: Open source

Contributing to other people's projects, and what happens to the patches.

• Running freeCodeCamp on NixOS: the shell.nix Prisma needs

  15 Sep, 2026

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  Prisma ships no engine for NixOS, so pnpm i on freeCodeCamp dies in postinstall. A 16-line shell.nix fixes it, as long as the nixpkgs engine matches the Prisma version. A bot closed the PR.

• From issue to merge in the terminal: the git and gh workflow

  1 Sep, 2026

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  The issue-to-merge loop is nine commands in git and gh. The catch: the branch linked to an issue does not close it, only a Closes keyword in the PR body does.