First weeks are mostly reading. Here’s how I ramped up on [JamesWay]‘s stack and where the bodies were buried.
The stack
The system was [one-line description of the stack — language, framework, datastore]. Day one I set up [local environment / tooling] by [the steps it took].
Where things lived
- [Service / module A] — [what it did].
- [Service / module B] — [what it did].
- [The part everyone warned me about] — [why].
First contribution
My first merged change was [what it was], which taught me [the lesson]. The review process was [how it worked].
Code walkthrough: Watch on YouTube — placeholder; replace with the real link.