History with Opensource

YAMLScript FFI Bindings

01 February 2024

Programming‑Languages Opensource Ruby Java Clojure C FFI

I was able to help one of my programming heros with his new language by contributing FFI bindings for Ruby, Java and Clojure.

Delon R. Newman—Software, Training and Design

Consulting Software Engineer · Remote · 3/2021 - Present

Consulting as a software engineer. Mentoring programmers at all levels of experience. Volunteer time each week toward building systems to assist with coordinating community outreach. Also volunteer on open source projects.

While helping a team with their React based frontend (without any experience with React) created a custom calendar component that fit their needs after recognizing that the off-the-shelf open source options wouldn’t work for them. Was able to deliver this component ahead of schedule with test coverage and with an array of date utilities that came to be adopted by the team throughout the rest of the code base.
An organization’s management was considering rewriting a legacy Rails application they’d inherited. I suggested that they might consider keeping the legacy app while adapting it to their micro service architecture. Within a few weeks the app was upgraded and Dockerized with the beginnings of test coverage (before this there were no tests). It also now had JSON API, and a new Svelte-based UI (according to organizational standards) with no prior Svelte experience.
With no Julia programming experience was able to help a high functioning team improve the quality of their Julia code base and testing which identified a critical production bug
Rescued the source code of a running Rails application. The developer had unfortunately disappeared. Was able to collect source code from AWS ElasticBeanstalk deployments (while having to fill in a number of missing pieces). Got it into a Github repository, upgraded from Rails & Ruby, and resolved a number of bugs and issues on it’s Vue.js frontend (having never used Vue.js before this).

Ruby TypeScript JavaScript Rails Turbo Hotwire Swift React Svelte Nodejs Perl C REST AWS Docker Git PostgreSQL Julia Opensource SQL Mentoring Micro-services Web-services Web-Development Pair-Programming TDD Remote-Work Contracting Mobile-Development

MiniLevenshtien

29 April 2022

Ruby C NLP Opensource Rubygems

In support of the development of an NLP Service for a client. Implemented an opensource Ruby extension for a fast Levenshtein distance and similarity ratio in C.

Minibars

12 January 2022

Ruby Rails C JavaScript HTML Templates Rubygems Opensource

Quickly implemented an opensource Ruby extension for handlebars.js compatibility and integrated into a legacy Rails application. Enabled the clients dev team to use their new M1 MacBooks.

TimeOfDay

29 October 2020

Ruby Opensource Object‑Oriented‑Programming Math

An opensource Ruby object that represents a given time-of-day separate from any Date information. Makes it easy to perform work time calculations. This project made work time calculations more reliable on various projects.

ActiveRecord::Pull

21 February 2020

Ruby Rails SQL Databases Opensource Functional‑Programming Rubygems

An opensource Rails extension that provides a simple query interface for pulling deeply nested data from records. Helped simplify complex queries when dealing with deeply nested data (as is often the case in health care). Which lead to simpler and more reliable applications.

Invokable

05 February 2020

Ruby Opensource Functional‑Programming Rubygems

Implemented an opensource Ruby module that makes it easy to treat various objects as functions, and provides other helper methods for functional programming. Developed this while working on various systems and eased the load of writing data processing code.

ActiveRecord::SetOps

30 January 2020

Ruby Rails SQL Databases Opensource Math Rubygems

An opensource Rails extension that provides union, intersect, and difference set operations for ActiveRecord (also, SQL’s UnionAll). Helped improve performance on complex queries while being able to take advantage of ActiveRecord’s ergonomic query interface.