Eight Months of Open Source Work

The last eight months have been one of my most active open source stretches in years. From October 10, 2025 to June 10, 2026, my GitHub activity tells a pretty clear story: Area Count Commit contributions 474 Authored pull requests 153 Merged authored pull requests 118 Pull request review contributions 108 Issues opened 6 Repository contributions 19 Numbers are useful, but they do not explain the work. The real story is that I spent these months making old projects sharper, moving Python and Django packages toward their next versions, building small tools for my own workflow, and turning experiments into reusable open source projects. It was not one big project. It was a long sequence of small, deliberate improvements. The Main Thread: json2xml The largest chunk of work went into json2xml, my Python library for converting JSON to XML. In this period I authored 35 PRs there, with 31 merged. The project went through a serious modernization cycle. I added the native Rust extension in PR…