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Garen Torikian

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Hello! Thank you for offering to sponsor me. I've been involved in open source, in one way or another, for over 20 years. I consider it a political act, as a means of literally changing the world, and simply as a beautiful way to contribute something free which others can use.

I'm a polyglot, but most of my work comes in the form of Ruby gems, Node.js modules, and C libraries. My work is being used by GitHub (I was employee 141!), Google, Heroku, Microsoft, Travis CI, and many others.

I tend to work on documentation tooling, rendering markup, and many other small scripts to generally make peoples' lives easier. If you or your company has benefited from my work, please consider sponsoring me! Any amount helps. If there's something particular you'd like in exchange for a certain tier, please let me know and I'll probably accommodate it!

Some of my popular projects

  • commonmarker - A Ruby gem that wraps the Comrak Rust crate for rendering Markdown/Commonmark.
  • html-proofer - A Ruby gem that tests your rendered HTML files to make sure they're accurate.
  • markdowntutorial.com - A website to teach others about how to write in Markdown.
  • Earthbound-Battle-Backgrounds.js - A website which generates JavaScript images from SNES code.
  • html-pipeline - A Ruby gem that makes it easier to generate HTML.
  • isBinaryFile - A Node.js module which efficiently checks to see if a file is binary
  • ooo-maker - A Typescript module which marks your GitHub avatar as being "out of office"
@gjtorikian

Your sponsorship is about more than just giving me money: it's an acknowledgement of the people behind the software you use. It's extremely motivating to me knowing that the software I help build is useful to real people, solving real problems, in real situations. It can be disheartening to constantly fix bugs, and your sponsorship would really encourge me to keep doing what I do. ✌️

Current sponsors 5

@ArtyomVancyan
@g-pavlik
@syntaxfm
@andrew
@FrontendMasters
Past sponsors 30
@Floppy
@NullableInt
@southgate
@jules2689
@holasoymalva
@mpraetz37
@fulldecent
Private Sponsor
@emejinglilcompany
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@francisfuzz
@scoutapm-sponsorships
@stevegeek
@lsnnt
@GitbookIO
@Dolphin-ru-com
@YannMartins
@GoetzGoerisch

Featured work

  1. gjtorikian/html-proofer

    Test your rendered HTML files to make sure they're accurate.

    Ruby 1,580
  2. gjtorikian/Earthbound-Battle-Backgrounds-JS

    A JavaScript project that generates all the Earthbound/Mother 2 backgrounds.

    JavaScript 378
  3. gjtorikian/commonmarker

    Ruby wrapper for the comrak (CommonMark parser) Rust crate

    Rust 437
  4. gjtorikian/markdowntutorial.com

    Lessons to help guide new writers into Markdown!

    HTML 563
  5. JavaScript 11
  6. gjtorikian/selma

    Selma selects and matches HTML nodes using CSS rules. Backed by Rust's lol_html parser.

    Rust 65

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@ArtyomVancyan @getsentry
@FrontendMasters @g-pavlik @syntaxfm @andrew

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