Projects

Alligator

Alligator is an RSS feed reader that works well on desktop and mobile devices. It's the first application I build using C++ and QML. Development started in early 2020.

NeoChat

NeoChat is a client for matrix, the decentralized protocol. Together with Carl Schwan, I've been developing and maintaining NeoChat since 2020.

Major features I have developed include

• The login flow
• Emoji handling
• End-to-end encryption (implemented in libQuotient)
• Device verification
• Message search
• Autocompletion for users, rooms, commands and emojis

I am currently working on:

• Advanced parts of end-to-end encryption (Cross-Signing, SSSS, etc.)
• Voice and Video Calls using WebRTC (!366)
• Account Registration (!77)
• Support for sticker packs (!321)
• Support for push notifications (!458)
• Sending and Showing location events (!311 and !312)

Kasts

Kasts is a podcast player developed for mobile and desktop devices. I'm maintaining it together with Bart de Vries. It was split of from Alligator in 2021.

Major features I have developed include

• The RSS feed base
• Basic download and playback of episodes
• Custom GStreamer pipeline to fix playback issues
• Showing chapter images
• Loading chapter marks from tags embedded in files
• Searching for podcasts on podcastindex.org

I am currently working on:

• Improving the integration with android (Multimedia notifications, etc. !29)
• Showing chapter marks in the progress slider (!53)

Plasma

My contributions to plasma include:

• Porting the Default Applications KCM to QML (!142)
• Various smaller fixes
• Porting plasma and frameworks away from deprecated code and towards KF6 and Plasma 6

I am currently working on:

• Porting the network KCM to QML (!190)