Projects

The first thing that comes after “let's make something” is “let's put it on bitbucket”.

Also, most of my ExtJS experience came from this project.

PKGBUILDs

One way of supporting software you like is to invite people to use it. PKGBUILDs are Arch's way of doing it. And Arch User Repository is the place people go to get some new exciting app.

Translations (old)

Improving localization is essentially improving user interface. When I was just starting as a translator, I used Rosetta, which is Launchpad's translation service. And it still tracks my translations, diligently.

Kudos

Ohloh is a free public directory of open source software and people. It can do pretty graphs with highlights and code analysis (including evaluations like “Very few source code comments”). It's probably the only site that does it, and does it well.

And you can earn badges, like this:
Unlike normal ones that say “Best shooter” or “Fastest swimmer”, this just says “Figure eight”. Weird.