Open Source Work
FletX Routing Documentation
When I first tried to use FletX’s routing system, I got stuck. Not because the system was broken, but because the documentation assumed I already knew why I’d use it instead of default navigation.
This is a common problem: maintainers who’ve lived with a feature for months forget what it’s like to see it for the first time.
I rewrote the routing documentation from scratch, starting with a minimal working example and progressively introducing dynamic routes, nested routes, and route guards. Each concept built on the previous one — no jumping ahead, no assuming prior knowledge.
The maintainers merged it, and it’s now the primary routing documentation. The feedback was clear: it made the system approachable for beginners without dumbing it down for advanced users.
Other Contributions
I also make smaller fixes that improve clarity and user experience:
- Fixed a hamburger menu bug in the YouTube extension code-charity/youtube
- Added keyboard shortcuts panel to Carbon-Tracker for better accessibility
- Corrected malformed JSDoc comments in ts-graphviz
- Fixed queue list numbering in zimit-frontend (started at 1 instead of 0 — small detail, but it matters for user mental models)
These aren’t flashy, but they’re honest work. Each one taught me something about paying attention to details that slip through the cracks.
These contributions taught me something: the best way to understand a system is to try explaining it to someone else. Which is probably why I ended up spending so much time thinking about documentation itself.