I found a "< 0" comparison instead of a "<= 0" in a conditional check once for someone else's audio library I was using which caused random lockups in the decoding loop only ever so often when decoding MP3s. It was for a function that removed ID3 data on the fly while decoding and then checked for more to strip out. Took a day to finally pinpoint what was happening, test my change, and then notified the author, who immediately fixed it. It felt great.

You don't gotta be a rockstar 10x developer working on 50 projects at once to help out.

Fixes typo

Github: you have earned yourself a spot on the contributor list

I also fix typos.

Most of them I made, be it still counts!

Anybody else waste a minute scrutinizing this image macro for a spelling error?

Look at the millionaire that uses documented projects.

Edit: Oops, didn’t see the community. I was thinking of programming libraries.

I recently fixed a typo Spunk -> Splunk, that was a hoot

My first contribution to a complex system was fixing a comment calling an email BCC field CC.

one character/word pull requests are awesome, i did that with Lemmy once

This is how I contributed code to the NSA

i translated a cli file compressing tool to my language. No coding, just editing the strings in the source and recompiling