Reflections From a Decade-Long Stack Overflow Member

William Henry Gates III, better known as Bill Gates, is an American business magnate, software developer, investor, author, and philanthropist. With an estimated wealth of $129 billion in 2022, Gates has already donated nearly $57 billion to his philanthropist foundation, including a $20 billion gift announced in July of this same year. Until then, Gates was often ranked among the World’s Top Givers. Gates has always reminded me that promoting welfare is important and personally I’ve done it countless times (by far on a lower scale), especially through the hands of Médecins Sans Frontières. Professionally, as a software engineer (or related), there are also many ways to contribute to our community welfare. Open source projects are probably the first option we could think of. Just inside this universe, it’s possible to play formal roles like maintainer, contributor, and commiter. Despite the fact that it’s not the goal to speak about it now, it’s important to take the opportunity to mention how it’s very common for people to boost their careers via open source participation. Exchanging expertise across Wikis or Q&A is another strategy to promote welfare. When it comes to technology, with more than 100 million monthly visitors and around 50 billion times that someone got help from, Stack Overflow is the lead platform to share technical knowledge, on which I’ve been trying somehow to collaborate over the past ten years. <a href="https://betterprogramming.pub/reflections-from-a-decade-long-stack-overflow-member-f60d8fb784fc">Click Here</a>