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Hacktoberfest 2026 Stopped Counting PRs. How I'd Spend the Month Instead

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Hacktoberfest 2026 has no pull request quota, and I think that frees you to do the kind of open source work that holds up. This year you earn stickers by learning and building, so you can spend October on something a maintainer would be glad to receive instead of something a counter would accept. I…

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    Hacktoberfest 2026 Stopped Counting PRs. How I'd Spend the Month Instead

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