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)

Each one taught me something about paying attention to details that usually slip.

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.