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Hacker Bits, Issue 11

HACKER BITS is the monthly magazine that gives you the hottest technology stories crowdsourced by the readers of Hacker News. We select from the top voted stories and publish them in an easy-to-read magazine format. Get HACKER BITS delivered to your inbox every month! For more, visit https://hackerbits.com/issue11.

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Our PyCon experience is I think the best proof that mypy is accessible to new developers: aside from<br />

me, all of the contributors adding annotations were new to both Zulip and mypy. We found that with a<br />

good 5-minute demo and good documentation, new contributors were effective within their first hour<br />

of working with mypy. I would definitely recommend the mypy hackathon approach to other open<br />

source projects — it’s a great way for contributors to have meaningful impact on an unfamiliar project.<br />

Phase 3: Get to 100%. Annotating the last several files is relatively difficult work, because this is where<br />

you end up debugging all the mistakes you made in Phase 2. While you do this, it’s important to lock<br />

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