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  • Empowering Careers: Insights and Inspirations from Outreachy Internship

    Starting the Outreachy internship has been great in more ways than one. Not only did I get the opportunity to improve my coding skills and start contributing to open source, but I also got the chance to meet amazing new people from around the world. The supportive community within Outreachy has been invaluable in helping…

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  • The midway point

    The midway point

    As an outreachy intern, when I began my internship, I started out with some pretty ambitious goals. You can read more about the details of my project in my previous blog post. In the first 3 weeks, my aim was to wrap up any PRs I had open from my contribution period and begin work…

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  • My outreachy project: Increasing Suricata’s rule keyword/ log output parity

    As an intern at Outreachy I have been working with the Open Information Security Foundation (OISF) on their network intrusion detection and prevention software, Suricata. For my outreachy project, I have been working on “Increasing Suricata’s rule keyword/log output parity.” Now, this might sound complex, but I’ll be doing my best to explain it as…

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  • Discovering the Wonders of git grep and git squash During My Outreachy Internship

    Introduction My experience learning about the field of open source development as an Outreachy intern has been challenging and rewarding. Before Outreachy, I didn’t have a lot of experience with Git, and frankly, I was a quite intimidated by it. However, after my mentors recommended some resources and I started exploring Git, I quickly realised…

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  • Introduction

    Introduction

    Hello everyone! Welcome to my first blog as an outreachy intern 🙂 My name is Hadiqa, and I am a software engineering graduate from Pakistan. Growing up, I had a million professions that I wanted to pursue, but thankfully, I ended up working in the tech field. After getting my bachelor’s degree, I started my…

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