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The Last Four PRs for 2025

Gracie Amser — Sun, 02 Nov 2025 23:43:45 +0000

This is a submission for the 2025 Hacktoberfest Writing Challenge: Open Source Reflections

Hacktoberfest 2025 has officially come to a close. One month of contributions that brought innovations to technology. Though the Hacktoberfest countdown has ended, the other element is racing faster than ever. Think Technology? Spot on!

Throughout this October, we have nurtured the growth of Technology. Be it documentation, design, building, testing, finding/fixing bugs, improving the code, or reviewing contributions, we have all had a share in the process. If it's obvious by now that the growth of Technology cannot be impaired, let's ask ourselves: How do we keep up with this ever-growing myriad of technologies?

To familiarize ourselves with all these different fields of innovation, we use various methods. Some follow the news, some subscribe to blogs, and others find social media handles that regularly post updates on their area of interest. This Hacktoberfest, I came across one particular project that helps us to stay updated in any/all these ways.

Tech Myrmidons

Techmyrmidon is a virtual technology icon who keeps itself updated with current technologies, changes its tools to match the trends, follows right experts, and, the best blogs on a particular field of interest.

techmyrmidons.com

A good start to meaningful contributions

The repository had a good README file with adequate learning resources to get beginners started. The folder structure was quite easy to follow, and the README file outlined all the ways to contribute to the project. With a quick review of the webpage, I decided to make my Hacktoberfest meaningful with Tech Myrmidons.

Alert: This is JSON!

The data files were stored in JSON format. Easy for us to read and easy for the machines to generate.
Having heard that it was a good practice to add comments in code, I decided to try it out.

JSON does not support comments!

The first of the many lessons learnt from the project.

Provide your Preview

For every pull request raised, the project required a link to the hosted version of our contribution. Later, I came to appreciate this good practice for two reasons:

The changes made could be identified with better clarity.
Testing the changes became much easier.

A quick search showed multiple platforms that provided free hosting, such as Vercel, Netlify, Firebase Hosting, GitHub Pages, Surge, and more.
The best part was choosing custom domain names!

Be a Tech Myrmidon

Tech Myrmidons currently covers 28 domains that range from App development, Blockchain and Generative AI to Creative Design, Photonics and Bioinformatics. The Open Source initiative welcomes contributions by adding and updating:

New Technologies
Blogs to read
People to follow

It was toward the final days of Hacktoberfest 2025 that I began to contribute to this inspiring initiative. Needless to say, this project has rekindled my interest in making better contributions.

Special mentions to the Repository Admins and maintainers for all the prompt reviews and feedback that made this journey memorable!

How do you choose to stay updated with Technology?