My First Hacktoberfest: A Developer's Journey Into Open Source

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My First Hacktoberfest: A Developer's Journey Into Open Source 🎃 Hello, DEV community! 👋 My name is Malik Putra, a developer from Indonesia 🇮🇩, and this is my very first post on DEV.to and what better way to start than with Hacktoberfest 2026! Honestly? I've been coding for a while, using open source tools every single day frameworks, libraries, packages all built by people who decided to share their work with the world. But I'd never given anything back.

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