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How a 23-year-old first-time Firefox coder fixed a 22-year-old bug (arstechnica.com)
submitted 1 year ago by bathalumang_peppa to c/technology
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[–] [email protected] 32 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

While the fix has created some regression, that bug is seeing work, too.

And this is why devs don't often focus on the minor issues. Haha. Good stuff.

To be clear, I love this story and kudos to Yifan Zhu for the initiative. Let's normalize crediting people properly