Adler

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Adler - Open Source Contributor

I contributed to a number of open source projects for my CoRE project. These included FreeBSD, GNU nano, and Telex. These improvements were for anything from comment typos to fixing crash bugs. Being involved with an open source community is a unique experience. There is no one telling you what to work on and no tangible reward. Instead of getting paid you earn the respect of one's peers. Some specific examples of the features I worked on are:

  • Telex: Avoiding a signed/unsigned compare later on when comparing with sizeof()
  • Telex: Ensuring an enum could never be less than zero
  • Nano: Fixing Compiler warnings
  • Nano: libmagic implementation
  • Nano: Fix non-portable regex
  • FreeBSD: Add support for a hardware to kernel drivers
  • FreeBSD: Add string comparison to md5
  • ... and more