Hi! My name's Kat and I've been an engineer on the npm CLI since 2015, and the CLI and Community Architect at npm since 2018. I've also done a bunch of community and D&I work outside of that, along with more non-npm open source!
What I've Done
- npm@5, npx, and npm ci.
- Various reusable npm packages, like pacote, cacache, make-fetch-happen, and more!
- I launched WeAllJS as an experiment in building healthy communities, and wrote the WeAllJS Code of Conduct for it.
- I launched package.community as a place for package manager devs to gather and share notes with each other!
- I wrote a widely-shared and used article about inclusion of non-binary folks in "women's spaces"!
What I'm Working On
- A shiny new package manager client for Entropic.
- I admin WeAllJS and package.community and help keep them happy, healthy, inclusive communities.
- I'm getting involved with the Rust ecosystem, and already started writing libraries like ssri, and cacache. I'm looking forward to doing more for the Rust community as I keep learning the language and getting involved with various efforts! Maybe with Cargo?
- I participate in communities, providing mentorship and advice in relevant areas of expertise.
What Sponsorship Does
Aside from what the tiers get you, sponsoring me enables me to keep finding ways to contribute to communities, both in code/tools, and in community work, and it helps me justify spending time on this outside of the scope of my day job!
Pinned projects
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NuGet/NuGet.Client
Client Tools for NuGet - including Visual Studio extensions, command line tools, and msbuild support. (Open issues on https://github.com/nuget/home/issues)
C# 427 -
entropic-dev/ds
entropy delta: the entropic client
Rust 43 -
npm/cli
the package manager for JavaScript
JavaScript 2.7k -
zkat/ama
Ask me anything!
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zkat/ssri-rs
Rusty implementation of Subresource Integrity
Rust 20 -
zkat/cacache-rs
💩 💵 but for your🦀 Rust 75
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$5 a month
$10 a month
Burrito Tier
- All the previous tier rewards
- Code review on a (reasonable, non-corporate) PR on an open source project!
- Access to an exclusive private repo with an archive of previous update emails, and various other exclusive goodies I'm gonna share with y'all!
$20 a month
Bay Area Burger Tier
- All the previous rewards.
- A review of a (non-corporate) conference talk and some advice on delivering it!
- A Patron license to any of my copyleft-licensed projects.
$50 a month
Dinner For Two
- All of the previous tier rewards
- A monthly half-hour-long phone or video call where you get to chat with me about whatever you want related to your career, open source, the projects I work on, or other stuff like that! I'm open to ideas! (All discussions non-corporate).
$150 a month
Corporate Tier
- All of the previous tier rewards as a corporate client.
- Taking the above into account, this is about 1hr a month of general consultation/support.
Taco Tier🌮 | This gets me a taco at my favorite taco place! It also gets you: