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Tomáš Janoušek

London, UK

Hi, I'm Tomáš (🇨🇿), I've been contributing to free and open-source software in my spare time since 2002.

My FOSS contributions 💁‍♂

🔧 submitting fixes and improvements

All software is buggy, but free software gives us the freedom to fix the issues that bother us. I exercise that freedom quite often: Ifixed Xorg not responding after 49.7 days,helped make it possible to connect monitors to outputs wired to a dGPU,fixed suspend messing up uptime and process start time, and submittedhundreds of other fixes all around.

🧑‍💻 building my own stuff

Over the years I releaseda couple dozen small projects. A few I'm proud of:

strava-map-switcher – webextension that adds additional more detailed maps to Strava.com
locus-rflkt-addon – alternative Android app for the (discontinued) Wahoo RFLKT bike computer with turn-by-turn navigation
GTK Cervi – Linux clone of an old DOS tron-like game (my first open-source project ever, released when I was 16)
xchat-bttrw –bitlbee-like gateway between IRC and a web-based chat that was popular in .cz in 2000s

Also, mydotfiles (mono)repo contains various useful scripts and small vim plugins that I don't think deserve a separate repo.

👨‍🔧 helping maintain other projects

Currently, I'm a maintainer and contributor to thexmonad window manager.

Several other projects recognized my contributions and asked me to help with pull request reviews and development. I (used to) have push/commit access in several projects:fluxbox (another X11 window manager),hpack,python-jenkins,jenkins-job-builder. I'm no longer active in these projects, however.

✍ educating others

I write about mostly technical stuff tomy blog, and I occasionally (rarely 😞) givetalks as well (I should do this more often, but impostor syndrome is hard, so you'll need to ask).

Why fund me? 💰

I really believe infree and open-source software being beneficial to our society and I wish I could stop worrying about having a closed-source day job and just spend my time improving the FOSS software we all use and rely on. When you choose one of the higher sponsorship tiers, you'll be able to influence which projects I spend my time on.

4 sponsors have funded liskin’s work.

@liskin's goal is to earn $2,000 per month

I'd like to not worry about a day job and just work full time on free and open-source software!

Featured work

xmonad/xmonad
The core of xmonad, a small but functional ICCCM-compliant tiling window manager
Haskell 3,427
xmonad/xmonad-contrib
Contributed modules for xmonad
Haskell 598
liskin/strava-map-switcher
Map switcher for Strava website
JavaScript 71
liskin/strava-offline
Keep a local mirror of Strava activities for further analysis/processing
Python 72
liskin/gh-problem-matcher-wrap
Invoke linters, detect errors/warnings, show them as annotations. Supports PRs from forks, unlike other Actions.
JavaScript 21
tools-life/taskwiki
Proper project management with Taskwarrior in vim.
Python 864