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"articleBody": "Admittedly, I feel a bit like a child sharing something like this, as there are so many devs that pull and merge requests from contributors on a regular basis. However, while I’ve contributed to documentation and/or tutorials and other non-coding portions of repositories, I feel a tiny bit proud that this was the first instance where I was using a library, found a bug, created an issue, cloned the repo to my local machine, found and fixed the code, and opened a pull request. It was a great learning experience with git, github, contributing to projects, and more. My first merged PR!\nThe project and library I was using was called Whiptail which allows you to use the terminal message boxes through a python script. Here are their docs. These message boxes are the same that you might see when you install a linux distro from a USB or first install of a server.\nWhat I was using this for is to develop an visually appealing way to use the Meshtastic CLI. There can be a ton of settings and flags to add to your Meshtastic device and adding the flags one by one - or worse, you have to go back and change a flag and you’re not using zsh-vi-mode - can be time consuming. This project would allow you to choose in a whiptail dialog from a list of flags and pass values to the flags. By having them in a navigable list, you can always retract a flag you no longer need.\nThen, once you’ve added everything you need, you confirm, and the command runs and syncs up your Meshtastic device!\nMaybe I’ll post more about that project if I ever get around to finishing it. But since Meshtastic releases new updates on such a regular basis, I need to ensure the project pulls from Meshtastic commands in a more dynamic way.\nAnyway, in this letter to no one, just thought I’d share my excitement.\n",
<divclass="post-content"><p>Admittedly, I feel a bit like a child sharing something like this, as there are so many devs that pull and merge requests
from contributors on a regular basis. However, while I’ve contributed to documentation and/or tutorials and other non-coding
portions of repositories, I feel a tiny bit proud that this was the first instance where I was using a library, <ahref="https://github.com/domdfcoding/whiptail/issues/41">found a bug</a>,
created an issue, cloned the repo to my local machine, found and fixed the code, and opened a pull request. It was a great
learning experience with git, github, contributing to projects, and more. <ahref="https://github.com/domdfcoding/whiptail/pull/42">My first merged PR!</a></p>
<p>The project and library I was using was called <ahref="https://github.com/domdfcoding/whiptail">Whiptail</a> which allows you to use
the terminal message boxes through a python script. <ahref="https://whiptail.readthedocs.io/en/latest/">Here are their docs</a>. These message boxes are the same that you might see when you install a linux distro from a USB or first install of a server.</p>
<p>What I was using this for is to develop an visually appealing way to use the <ahref="https://meshtastic.org/docs/software/python/cli">Meshtastic CLI</a>. There can be a ton of
settings and flags to add to your <ahref="https://meshtastic.org/">Meshtastic</a> device and adding the flags one by one - or worse,
you have to go back and change a flag and you’re not using <ahref="https://github.com/jeffreytse/zsh-vi-mode">zsh-vi-mode</a> - can be
time consuming. This project would allow you to choose in a whiptail dialog from a list of flags and pass values to the
flags. By having them in a navigable list, you can always retract a flag you no longer need.</p>
<p>Then, once you’ve added everything you need, you confirm, and the command runs and syncs up your Meshtastic device!</p>
<p>Maybe I’ll post more about that project if I ever get around to finishing it. But since Meshtastic releases new updates on
such a regular basis, I need to ensure the project pulls from Meshtastic commands in a more dynamic way.</p>
<p>Anyway, in this letter to no one, just thought I’d share my excitement.</p>
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