Hello, Javan Makhmali here. I’m a programmer at Basecamp, co-creator of Trix, and Ruby on Rails contributor. You can find me on Twitter, GitHub, and at javan@javan.us.

Recent open source contributions

• Refactor emoji converter johnbeatty/trix_emoji

• Publish @stimulus/polyfills package stimulusjs/stimulus

• Active Storage: Always exclude JSON root from direct_uploads#create response rails/rails

• Mutation observers: Improve IE 11 support stimulusjs/stimulus

• Start when the DOM is interactive stimulusjs/stimulus

• Fix digesting templates with mixed formats rails/rails

• Android: Ignore Chrome 65’s new composition events during cursor movement basecamp/trix

• Fix inconsistent has*Target property names in different locales stimulusjs/stimulus

• Target definitions stimulusjs/stimulus

• Add Application.prototype.handleError stimulusjs/stimulus

• Ensure new <script>s are loaded in order when navigating turbolinks/turbolinks

• Add meta tag for opting in to full page reloads turbolinks/turbolinks

• Skip autofocusing in preview snapshots turbolinks/turbolinks

• Patch event.preventDefault() in browsers with buggy support (IE 11) turbolinks/turbolinks

• Fix usage example github/accessibilityjs

… and more »

Talks

• Electron — If you can build a website, you can build a desktop app at SEM.js
• Introducing Trix at connect.tech
• Basecamp 3 Unraveled at A2RB
• The JavaScript That Makes Basecamp Tick at SEM.js

Thanks for stopping by!