`open_source`

Open source as a place to sharpen tools and leave useful trails.

Building in the open on GitHub since 2014. Avi Charlop / @acharlop.

Available for selective opportunities

Learning new ways not to do things every day

Featured work includes Rails syntax highlighting, Astro CMS tooling, and Tailwind developer tooling contributions.

`repos`

Ruby on Rails syntax highlighting

Maintainer

A Rails syntax highlighter gem wrapping Prism.js for simple asset pipeline usage.

Maintainer · 250K+ downloads on RubyGems.

Ruby on RailsPrism.js

Tailwind CSS tooling

Merged

Added a font-family viewer component (plus serve/build scripts) to the local Tailwind config visualizer.

Contributor · PR #57 · 2022

Tailwind CSSDeveloper tooling

T3 stack scaffolding CLI

Merged

Improved the generated start-database.sh script in the T3 app scaffolder.

Contributor · PR #2038 · 2025

TypeScriptShell

Unicode Bidirectional Algorithm library

Pending review

Added hand-maintained TypeScript type definitions that correctly type the factory function and its returned API.

Contributor · PR #15

TypeScriptJavaScript