• 👋 Hi, I’m @johnzhou721 (My Blog: https://johnzhou721.blogspot.com)
• 😄 Pronouns: he/him
• One of the authors of the novel, Shine A Light On Me: A Story Of The Blues, Friendship and Memory (2026); https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0HM5LFNG2
• 💻 Computer I use: an M1 MacBook Pro from 2021
• 🌏 Non-Programming Languages: Chinese (Simplified, Mandarin), English
• Currently working on Scaffolds layer in Toga (see "Contributions to Other Projects" section, item 1)
• 💻 Programming Languages: Python, C++, (a bit of) Java, TypeScript (the language only, don't know frameworks), Objective-C, (La)TeX
  • If you have a really cool language you'd like to suggest to put onto my stack, make an issue on johnzhou721/johnzhou721

For information on sponsorship of my independent FOSS work, see johnzhou721/sponsorship-info.

This is for independent FOSS work only, i.e. packages maintained under the johnzhou721 namespace, or PRs that are NOT made to any organization I am part of (NO DONATIONS TO ME ALLOWED FOR WORK ON non-profits for which I get volunteer hours).

[Note: End-user applications below are not published as I do not have the neccessary signing certificates.]

• An internal script for an annual field trip at school for Excel's Office Scripts, https://github.com/johnzhou721/cm-rooming
• https://github.com/johnzhou721/mouse for macOS, a game testing short-term memory
• https://github.com/johnzhou721/makenumber for macOS, Windows, Linux, iOS, and Android, a game similar to the mechanics of the show Number Sense (no endorsement implied)
• https://github.com/johnzhou721/sudoku-solver for macOS, Windows, and Linux, a GUI for a sudoku solver using python-sat by eysbutno
• johnzhou721/tiler -- Generates printable sheets containing repeated text or images. macOS, Linux (GTK), Linux (Qt), Windows

• (ONGOING) Refactor to BeeWare's Toga GUI framework to support top-level navigation patterns ("Scaffolds"): beeware/toga#4605, beeware/toga#4382, tickets / prior discussion: beeware/toga#4298, beeware/toga#4271
• Contributing the initial code for the system-pyside6 package enabling people to use their system-installed copy of PySide6 in an isolated venv: beeware/system-pyside6#1
• Contributing the initial implementation of the Qt backend for BeeWare's Toga: beeware/toga#3769
• DPI Scaling Debugging for Toga's WinForms backend, beeware/toga#4577
• Making Python builds work for visionOS: beeware/Python-Apple-support#276 and related PRs, later upstreamed to CPython by freakboy3742 at python/cpython#159944
• A patch to BeeWare's Python-Apple-Support that adds unofficial CPython build support for visionOS: beeware/Python-Apple-support#270, freakboy3742/cpython#6
• Researching on and debugging issues with Gtk4 migration for BeeWare's Toga, comments on beeware/toga#3239