I love to contribute to Open Source projects. Besides being a maintainer of a top 1000 Python library and a few others, my contributions have mostly been little bits here and there, reporting and fixing bugs as I find them in projects I use. You can find my contributions on the following platforms:

Specific Projects

ciso8601

ciso8601 is the world’s fastest Python library for parsing ISO 8601 timestamps. I completely rewrote the existing ciso8601 library, creating version 2.0.0.

As part of the rewrite I:

  • Fixed the interface to have consistent error handling (the most asked for issue)
  • Improved test coverage by automatically generating test cases for all valid formats.
  • Made it >65% faster

Since then, I’ve continued to improve its performance. With the 2.3.0 release, it is 3x faster than it was when I took over the project.

It is now the fastest way to parse ISO 8601 in Python, by far!

backports.datetime_fromisoformat

backports.datetime_fromisoformat is a simple backport of Python 3.11’s datetime.fromisoformat methods to earlier versions of Python 3.

Foam

Foam is a personal knowledge management and sharing system inspired by Roam Research, built on Visual Studio Code and GitHub.

I took on the project of designing and implementing a unified user experience for creating notes from templates (“Templates v2”).

This involved:

  • Designing a new user experience for note templates:
    • Allowing for templates to be able to be used by all the note creation mechanisms, unifying their differing needs into a cohesive and simple mental model that users could reason about.
    • Extending the syntax of templates, in order to support useful metadata
  • Drafting the proposed changes as a proposal document; communicating clearly and asynchronously with all of the relevant stakeholders
  • Actually implementing the changes. More than a dozen PRs and counting…

Bug Patches

Bugs Reported