About
Hi! My name is David Foster and my mission is to make the world a better place, through the tools of creating software and the written word.
I co-founded TechSmart, which seeks to bring world-class computer science education to K-12 students. I specifically engineer the TechSmart Platform website.
My most notable open source contributions include:
- TypedDict’s initial implementation and other typechecking extensions in Python & mypy;
- maintaining RDiscount, Ruby bindings to the Discount Markdown implementation;
- SSA subtitle support in HandBrake; and
- enhancements to Django.
I was also interviewed in 2021 which shows what I was thinking about at that time.
Biography
I initially discovered computers when I was 4 and starting programming them at 6. Since then, programming has been one of my most enduring passions. Witness my large number of personal projects.
Beyond that I enjoy:
- reading,
- being outdoors & visiting flower gardens,
- digital archival and preservation,
- rhythm dance games (DDR, PIU), and
- contra dance.
Contact
Email david at this domain (dafoster.net).
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