open-source projects and contributions

2023-05-15 – any2opus.sh – FFmpeg wrapper for the parallel conversion of audio files

2023-02-28 – Transmission OG – fork of Transmission 3.00 focused on stability

2023-01-28 – virtualenv-tauthon – external Virtualenv plugin that adds Tauthon support

2022-12-01 – re-enabled LTO in SVT-AV1, for CMake 3.10 and newer

2022-07-06 – figured out, the hard way, that Linux microcode updates on AMD Bulldozer, Piledriver, Steamroller and Excavator were only applied to half of the logic CPU cores

2021-11-24 – debugged and fixed a transient stack corruption on Windows, with Mingw-w64 and setjmp/longjmp

2019-12-16 – nim-libbacktrace – Nim wrapper for libbacktrace – meant for replacing Nim’s default stack tracing mechanism

2019-11-15 – merged Python 2.7.17 into Tauthon

2019-08-20 – nimbus-build-system – common parts of the build system used by Nimbus and related projects

2019-07-09 – nim-metrics – Nim metrics client library supporting the Prometheus monitoring toolkit, StatsD and Carbon

2019-05-19 – nim-unittest2 – fork of the “unittest” Nim module, allowing parallel test execution

2019-04-10 – nim-nat-traversal – Nim NAT traversal using wrappers for miniupnpc and libnatpmp

2019-03-10 – merged Python 2.7.16 into Tauthon

2018-05-21 – Autotools GLEW support and macOS fixes for OpenToonz GTS

2018-05-16 – fix the Linux and macOS builds and clarify some instructions (OpenToonz GTS)

2018-05-07 – merged Python 2.7.15 into Tauthon

2018-02-17 – pyperfplot – a simple script that can normalise and plot multiple benchmark results produced by the perf and performance Python modules

2017-12-09 – merged Python 2.7.14 into Tauthon

2017-11-11 – generate_HLS – a proof-of-concept HLS v4 playlist generator used to demonstrate the steps needed to produce all the fields in the master m3u8 file

2017-06-20 – Autotools for the “test” branch of vacaboja/tg

2017-03-12 – fix compilation with libsamplerate-0.1.9 (JvanKatwijk/sdr-j-sw)

2017-03-11 – Fix linking with ‘–as-needed’ (ponylang/ponyc)

2017-01-07 – configure: fix –disable-debug, –disable-profile and –disable-locale-specific-tax (Gnucash/gnucash)

2016-10-11 – w_scan2 – w_scan fork (channel scan tool which generates ATSC, DVB-C, DVB-S/S2 and DVB-T channels.conf files). The fork was born from a patch submitted in February that got no reply: https://stefantalpalaru.wordpress.com/2016/02/04/scan-all-the-things/

2016-10-10 – stylometry analysis showing that Elena Ferrante’s books were most likely written by Domenico Starnone

2016-09-02 – patch for CubicSDR to use the system RtAudio on Linux

2016-08-08 – patch for Gnucash to fix compilation with guile-2.0.12 on Gentoo and further analysis showing why the problem only affects Gentoo

2016-04-08 – Linux (and incidentally OS X) port of GTS using SANE for scanner access. GTS is a scanning tool developed by Studio Ghibli.

2015-05-31 – golib-nim – Nim language bindings for golib – a library that (ab)uses gccgo to bring Go’s channels and goroutines to the rest of the world

2015-04-23 – golib – a library exposing Go’s channels and goroutines to plain C (and to any other language able to use C libraries)

2014-08-16 – vue2xgmml – VUE to XGMML converter, mainly used for exporting graphs from VUE to Cytoscape 3

2014-05-01 – uwsgi_reload – a script for the proper graceful reloading of uWSGI vassals in a fastrouter based setup (associated blog post)

2014-04-30 – cherokee2nginx – script for the partial conversion of Cherokee configuration files into the Nginx equivalents

2014-04-02 – django-bogofilter – Bayesian spam filtering for django_comments using bogofilter

2014-03-31 – generic_celery_task – a workaround for the lack of dynamic tasks in Celery

2014-03-30 – gentoo-overlay – personal Gentoo Linux overlay

2013-12-26 – iccloader – systray widget used to load ICC colour profiles with different colour temperatures, either on demand or automatically based on the sun’s position (Vala application competing with Redshift and f.lux, for people with calibrated monitors)

2013-12-21 – vala-skeleton-autotools – Vala project skeleton using Autotools (a “hello world” GTK3 desktop application)

2013-03-23 – deluge-default-trackers – a Deluge plugin that allows you to create a list of default trackers that will be added to new public torrents (and old ones after restarting Deluge)

2013-02-10 – pool – a generic worker pool for the Go language. It’s useful when you want to limit the number of goroutines running in parallel.

2012-12-13 – bbc_radio – Python/Qt scripts for listening to BBC/RAI radio stations using an external player (VLC by default)

2012-03-24 – django-ztask-odeon – django-ztask fork with new features

2012-02-29 – morelia-pcre – Python bindings for the Perl Compatible Regular Expressions (PCRE) library

2012-02-21 – django-rdflib – Django integration for a Python RDF library

2012-01-07 – CHDK port for Canon IXUS 220HS 1.01G (open source photo camera firmware)

2011-06-29 – django-fts-odeon – a fork of django-fts with new features for full-text search with PostgreSQL

2010-09-14 – django-pygments – a Django app that provides a template tag and 2 filters for doing syntax highlighting with Pygments.

2010-08-10 – pyopeninviter – Python wrapper for OpenInviter (PHP contact importer)

2010-08-01 – django-cherrypy-odeon – a Django app that allows you to run the cherrypy WSGI server as a production or as a development server (replacing the ‘runserver’ command with a threaded cherrypy instance)

2010-07-12 – testerbender – test runner useful as a gatekeeper between a test repository and a live one in a continuous integration setup

2006-05-27 – WWW::phpBB – phpBB2 forum scraper in Perl

2003-10-27 – Linux kernel patch to fix the CMD640 IDE PCI driver – simplified by a kind soul a couple of months later and eventually included in the 2.6.1 kernel