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Karsten Schmidt

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Allgäu, formerly London

Hey there,

I'm Karsten, an open source author, polyglot software engineer, computational designer, educator and artist, actively developing open source tools since 1999.

Maybe you know me as the author of the toxiclibs.org and thi.ng library collections (among many others). Both are large-scale meta-projects (each 80-100k LOC and including dozens of educational example projects), have been continuously developed over years and, at various stages, been instrumental in their respective communities (Processing/Java, Clojure/ClojureScript, TypeScript). Over the years, both projects have been key components for various award-winning computational design works (not just my own) and been used both as production and teaching tools in disparate fields like architecture, digital fabrication, generative design, data visualizations, interactive art installations, audio/DSP etc.

For the last 4+ years my current focus of development is the thi.ng/umbrella mono-repo, a collection of 110+ TypeScript projects, providing much needed, simple - not simplistic - solutions for data driven, functional development and to generally de-clutter TypeScript development, inside & outside the browser. The umbrella project is designed as an anti-framework and antidote to other, often over-engineered OOP approaches, providing small, highly composable and complementary tools, which are easy to reason about. The project covers an extremely wide scope of development topics: from useful data structures, state containers/management, reactive programming pipelines, DSLs, low-level memory (e.g. for WASM interop) to 2D/3D geometry/visualization tools and UI generation...

My goal with GitHub Sponsors is to spend more time maintaining these projects and developing better support & community structures around those. I also want to set aside more time for creating educational content, incl. live streams. If you feel this is a worthwhile effort, please consider sponsoring! Thank you in advance!

Current sponsors 9

@raphaelsaunier
@davidpham87
Private Sponsor
@Hantsouski
@ul
@jarrodldavis
@loganpowell
@tsukamotohideki
@rc1

Past sponsors 6

@eihli
@mhuebert
@admsyn
Private Sponsor
@chancyk
@JeffreyPalmer

Featured work

  1. thi-ng/umbrella

    ⛱ Broadly scoped ecosystem & mono-repository of 179 TypeScript projects for general purpose, functional, data driven development

    TypeScript 2,819
  2. thi-ng/zig-thing

    Various, still unstructured experiments / data structures / open-learning with Zig

    Zig 19
  3. thi-ng/geom

    2D/3D geometry toolkit for Clojure/Clojurescript

    Clojure 906
  4. thi-ng/fabric

    Signal/Collect inspired compute graph infrastructure for Clojure & Clojurescript

    Shell 151
  5. postspectacular/toxiclibs

    Official master repo (Git version)

    Java 141
  6. thi-ng/c-thing

    Geometry related data structures (C11)

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