something i'm asked sometimes is how to find open source projects to contribute to - 95% of the time i'm just solving my own problems tbh you use loads of oss even if you don't realize it, and often the fastest way to fix a little annoyance is to just PR it in yourself!
agree with this. popular libraries are so frequently broken that I don't know how people avoid doing open-source unless they're happy to write hacks and lower the quality of the product they're developing