As a fan of open source I am satisfied by a couple of my first merged contributions to projects that happened over the last few months.

Karakeep (January)

Karakeep is a self hosted bookmark manager I use. I noticed the grid UI had awkward extra horizontal scrolling slack that was a layout mistake. This was a small but satisfying fix. PR

DecapCMS (August)

DecapCMS is a very cool git based CMS where your content can live alongside your code tracked in git. I noticed that there was no option to optimize images - they would just be directly uploaded as-is no matter what size or format they were in. This hogs storage space and could make page loads slower if you don’t have a site that optimizes images when they are served. I used @jsquash/webp and HTML Canvas for processing images before they are committed to the CMS repository. PR

I’m actively using DecapCMS for Digital Ground Game’s website. I’m looking forward to the upstream release so I can incorporate this change into it.

What’s next

I’m looking forward to any further contributions I could make in the future to open source.