Isabel Costa

Isabel Costa @isabelcmdcosta

About: I'm a Software Engineer, from Portugal, a GitHub Star and a mentor at Black CodHer Bootcamp and "As Raparigas de Codigo" organization. Previously, I've been an admin at AnitaB.org Open Source.

Location:
London, UK
Joined:
Jul 3, 2017

Isabel Costa
articles - 19 total

How to find Open Source projects to contribute

I often get asked about how to find Open Source projects to contribute to. In this post, I’ll show...

Learn More 446 15Jun 11 '22

I’ve been a contributor, mentor, and admin in Google Open Source programs

This is my experience as GSoC 2018 student, GCI 2019 mentor and GSoC 2020 admin.

Learn More 5 0Jun 9 '22

4 zonas a personalizar do perfil de GitHub

O perfil no GitHub tem cada vez mais opções que ajudam a representar o nosso perfil como...

Learn More 3 0Oct 3 '21

AnitaB.org Open Source profile README on GitHub

GitHub announced that Organizations can have profile READMEs so we created one at AnitaB.org!

Learn More 2 1Oct 3 '21

Sync fork with the original repository using git

How to sync forked repository with original repository using git on the terminal

Learn More 8 0Sep 4 '21

Contributing to Open Source in Quality Assurance

Did you know you can contribute to Open Source with Quality Assurance and testing?

Learn More 21 3Mar 21 '21

Dataclasses in Python are nice!

A small introduction to dataclasses feature in Python

Learn More 41 7Mar 14 '21

That time I contributed to Scala Exercises website

I wrote about the time I contributed to open source through fixing typos on scala-exercises.org website

Learn More 5 0Mar 7 '21

How to change last commit message

Often I have to change commit messages from my last commit, this is how I do it.

Learn More 13 0Nov 21 '20

Ficheiros base num projeto Open Source

Um projecto Open Source costuma ter uma base de ficheiros, que permite colaboradores perceber como devem interagir com o projecto e quais as expectativas de quem mantém o projecto.

Learn More 5 0Nov 8 '20

My First Open Source Contribution

For a long time, I thought about contributing to Open Source, but I felt I did not know where to...

Learn More 26 1Jul 27 '20

Images of People of Color for content creation

In this short post, I will list some resources that you can use to bring more people of color representation into your online content!

Learn More 5 1Jun 20 '20

Open Source programs and initiatives

In this blog post, I will mention some open source initiatives and programs that can help you get started or more involved with Open Source.

Learn More 27 3Mar 12 '20

Overcoming blocks about contributing to Open Source

In this post, I’ll share my first contributions to Open Source and show you what my current views are on my initial blockers to contribute to Open Source.

Learn More 71 9Jun 23 '19

How I set up Tinyproxy as a forward and reverse proxy

In this post I talk about an experiment I did using Tinyproxy. I show I how setup tinyproxy to work as a forward and a reverse proxy.

Learn More 22 0Mar 17 '19

Intro to Google Summer of Code with Systers Open Source

This is an introduction for my Google Summer of Code journey with Systers Open Source.

Learn More 39 2May 5 '18

Installing nftables from sources on Debian

In this post, I’ll show you how I installed nftables from sources. I needed to do this from the sources to have the latest version of nftables.

Learn More 11 1Mar 9 '18

Nevertheless, Isabel Costa Coded

I began to code because... I began to code when I got into university. I knew little about...

Learn More 14 0Mar 7 '18

How to undo the last commit

In this post I will show how I sometimes recover wrong changes (commits) in a coding project, using git on the command line.

Learn More 199 26Feb 20 '18