Extrawurst
Founder at Rustunit
Summary
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RockstarExtrawurst is a founder and seasoned software tinkerer with 11 years of hands-on experience, now focused on Rust and modern systems programming. Creator of GitUI and live-ask.com and founder of Rustunit, they combine full-stack development skills with a passion for fast, user-friendly tooling—GitUI is a notable blazing-fast terminal UI for Git where they contributed UI improvements, build fixes, and diff/stash refinements. Comfortable across Rust, Go, C#, and D, they gravitate toward developer tooling and editor-centric workflows, exemplified by work on a This-Week-In-Rust editor. Known for pragmatic refactors and shipping polish-level UI behavior (like focus-switching after staging), they bridge low-level systems work with practical UX improvements. Their profile suggests a hands-on leader who prefers building small, high-impact open-source projects that advance everyday developer productivity.
11 years of coding experience
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Github Skills (22)
tui10
git10
testing10
command-line-interface10
git-hooks10
command-line10
terminal-ui10
rust10
cli10
async9
tauri9
command-line-tool9
webserver6
unity-game-engine6
android6
Programming languages (25)
Github contributions (5)
gitui-org/gitui
Feb 2022 - Jan 2023
Blazing 💥 fast terminal-ui for git written in rust 🦀
Role in this project:
Full-stack Developer
Full-stack DeveloperContributions:7 releases, 378 reviews, 145 commits in 10 months
Contributions summary:Extrawurst primarily contributed to the terminal-ui for git project, making improvements across the codebase. Their work included fixing build issues, enhancing UI components, and addressing bugs in the stash list functionality. Furthermore, the user implemented features such as switching focus after staging files and refactoring diff-related components.
command-line-toolblazingrustcommand-line-interfaceterminal-ui
alexa-d/amazonlogin-d
Feb 2017 - Oct 2022
Contributions:1 release, 1 PR, 2 pushes in 5 years 8 months
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