Hi 👋 How are you?

I'm Simon, the proud owner of several hand-crafted open-source libraries. I'm a self-taught frontend engineer with a passion for UX/UI who loves open-source collaboration.

You can also check out my homepage to learn more about me! You can support me by buying me a coffee ☕ or via PayPal :)

My first project, java-express - an expressjs clone, was the first thing I published and actively maintained on GitHub. I never thought it would be used by anyone else, but I was wrong, and I love it! Although java-express is looking for a new maintainer, it was my first achievement in the open-source community.

Shortly after that, I started pickr and viselect (formerly selection-js), which are now both widely used and actively maintained by me, even though things are slowly getting difficult due to the rather old architecture.

There's also candy, a more or less "lightweight" desktop app to download and convert YouTube videos, playlists, and entire channels.

Other cherry-picked projects I'm working on or have worked on and maintain:

• ✨ Viselect - formerly known as selection-js, a visual selection engine to make element selections as you do in your local file explorer. v3 now with major framework support.
• 🏦 ocular - A simplistic, beautiful, and straightforward open-source budgeting app to track your budget across the years. Easy to use, get started, and set up.
• 🎨 Pickr - A simple, multi-themed, responsive, and hackable color-picker library. No dependencies, no jQuery. Compatible with all CSS frameworks, e.g., Bootstrap, Materialize. Supports alpha channel, rgba, hsla, hsva, and more!
• 🍦 Nano Pop - Smaller and less-heavy positioning engine than popper.js with a less-comfortable API but more control and performance. Useful for custom positioning widgets/libraries.
• 🌎 Li18nt - A linter for your localization files, finds missing translations, orders them, and detects conflicting properties. All wrapped up in a CLI.
• ⛓ Graceful WS - WebSocket wrapper and smaller alternative to socket.io which takes care of connection re-establishment and event encapsulation.
• 🗜 Nason - Tiny object-to-binary encoder. Useful to serialize mixed JS objects with both text and binary data (such as images, audio, or Typed Arrays).
• ☕ beam.cafe - A blazing fast, installable web app to share and stream files instantly with a focus on user experience/ease of use. This project is retired but still was a lot of fun to work on and a good proof-of-concept.

...and many more!