my first open source contribution was terrifying

i wanted to contribute to open source but had no idea where to start. most projects felt too intimidating, too complex, or too far from what i actually understood. then i found a GitHub issue in StarRocks asking for a format_bytes() function. simple request: convert raw byte counts to human readable formats like "4.00 KB" instead of "4096". i understood the problem. i could write the solution. so…