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Coming into the competition without a team, I was nervous about the people I’d meet and who I’d team up with. But, as I would later see, what matters most is not who’s on the team, but the attitude I carry.
What I learned from hacking Google Chrome
I’m just a regular engineering student. I mean, sure, I like watching random educational youtube videos, using computers, and programming for fun, but I mean, hey, that’s why I’m in ECE. Yet, I’m not a hacker, nor do I have the skills to even remotely consider myself one. And even despite the plethora of reasons I should fail, I managed to do what I thought I could never do.
How I Got Started With Contributing to Firefox
I admit, I used to think contributing to Firefox was basically impossible, especially as someone who didn’t yet know Rust or C++. And even if I overcame this hurdle, I thought it was hard to get set up, difficult to find bugs that are well-scoped to what I can actually accomplish given my skillset, and challenging to understand the complex codebases that would be typical of large software projects. But I wanted to help. And after hacking Google Chrome, I realized that maybe I could, or at least I could try.