Zasper
Zasper is an open-source High Performance IDE for working with Jupyter notebooks. It’s built from scratch to be blazing fast, highly concurrent, low on resource usage, crash-resistant, even under heavy loads. It is cross-platform - fully supported on macOS & Linux with limited support on Windows — for the best experience, use via WSL
How to support
GitHub Sponsors @ https://github.com/sponsors/prasunanand
A small brief about your project
Zasper is a High Performance IDE for Jupyter Notebooks. It provides a minimal memory footprint, exceptional speed, and the ability to handle numerous concurrent connections. Its architecture thrives under load, delivering better throughput and stability at scale.
One FOSS maintainer lesson for your younger self
Do not get distracted by the bigger picture. Be opinionated. Be focused on small things. Welcome feedback but protect your project's vision.
Why do you do it? Why do you bother maintaining a FOSS project?
I like building things that last and make someone’s day 10x smoother. It’s art, it’s engineering, and it’s legacy — all tangled together.
Open source lets me:
* Share my work without a gatekeeper, It helps me punch above my weight.
* Learn from real-world feedback.
* Build in public, with strangers who become friends
* See code I wrote powering tools across the world
What makes me keep going ?
* Github stars
* Pride in the work
* Curiosity to keep leveling up
* Gratitude when someone contributes back
* Stubbornness to not let the thing rot
If your repo had a theme song, what would it be?
Tokyo Drift (Fast & Furious)
Which file in your project would you most like to set on fire?
The release file. Something always breaks - https://github.com/zasper-io/zasper/blob/main/.github/workflows/release.yml
What's your open-source villain origin story?
I don't have one. My interactions with OSS community have been mostly nice. Someone becomes a villain when they don't acknowledge the efforts of others which inspired their current craft.
If you had to use one emoji to convey what it is like to be a FOSS maintainer, what would it be?
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