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xylix

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Open source contributor. Software developer. Entrepreneur.

Funding Links: https://github.com/sponsors/xylix

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I'm Kerkko Pelttari, a compsci student and professional programmer from Finland. I'm a programming enthusiast, sometimes spending my free time reading documentation and writing dotfiles. I like learning new programming languages, and that is some of what I do as "free-time programming".
Currently I'm somewhat busy with creating open-source on paid work time, but whenever I have time I might contribute to a variety of projects. Sponsorshipping will shift some of my attention to less commercial open-source whenever possible.
I'm presenting neovim/neovim as featured work because I once got a couple line bash commit in, but I will try to contribute in the future again. I've spent many days reading modifying neovim plugins as well, but haven't gotten any actual contributions done yet.
ActivityWatch is the project where I have contributed most commits as pure open source work. I've also gotten paid for some work there from a grant, but I aim to keep continuing contributing at some point.
I've done a lot of building of "commercial open source" at robocorp/rpaframework and MarketSquare/robotframework-browser. This has also let me do some research into upstream software, and at some point using these skills I might attempt to for example create Playwright bindings for a new language (probably Rust).
I will probably use funds gotten here as a sort of "developer budget", paying for my hosting fees, dev licenses etc. when possible.
I like talking about code so independent of sponshorships, especially if you have come across me in a git blame message, please message / mail me and lets talk.

Featured Works

neovim/neovim

Vim-fork focused on extensibility and usability

Language: Vim Script - Stars: 88382
ActivityWatch/activitywatch

The best free and open-source automated time tracker. Cross-platform, extensible, privacy-focused.

Language: Python - Stars: 13874
ActivityWatch/aw-server-rust

High-performance implementation of the ActivityWatch server, written in Rust

Language: Rust - Stars: 221
xylix/dotfiles

My dotfiles

Language: Vim Script - Stars: 1
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