Weekly Standup (2026-06-01)

🎉 Weekly Standup 🎉

An async stand-up to provide status reports on what you've been up to the previous week, what your plan is for the upcoming week, and to request help for things you are working on.

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**🙌 Thanks I'd like to give**

- <name> helped me out with...

**✅ Updates from last week**

- I worked on <link-to-pull-request>

**🕵️ Pull requests I reviewed**

- I reviewed and provided feedback on the following PRs:

  - <link-to-pull-request>

**🧑‍🎓 One thing I learned last week**

- I learned...

**🔭 My plan for the current week**

- I plan on working on...

**🙏 Challenges that I've faced and things I'd like help with**

- I had a hard time figuring out...

**🏝️ My availability for next week**

- I'll be off on <date>

**💬 Important items for discussion**

- I have a question about <issue-or-pull-request>...
- Can @<github_handle> comment on issue #NN?
- I opened #NN for discussion.
- I need to discuss...

🎯 Task Status

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@stdlib-js/gsoc-2026

@kgryte

🙌 Thanks I'd like to give

Shoutout to @kgryte and @aayush0325 for helping me out with many minor and major issues I faced during last week.

✅ Updates from last week

I worked on dlasq4, dlasrt and dorgl2. I also started to work on the dorml2 routine (no PR yet).

🕵️ Pull requests I reviewed

None

🧑‍🎓 One thing I learned last week

I learned that the routines with 2-D arrays take much longer than the ones without it, because of strides, and row-major, column-major operations.

🔭 My plan for the current week

I plan on working on finishing the dorml2 routine, and work on dlasr and one more routine depending upon which blocker gets merged.

🙏 Challenges that I've faced and things I'd like help with

I had a hard time figuring out how to handle LDA parameter in the <routine>.js API, I will discuss about this in detail in the office hours.

🏝️ My availability for next week

I will be available the whole week.

💬 Important items for discussion

After this week all the routines will be blocked for me. If @kgryte can fast track these two PRs dtrmm and dlarfg, it would unlock 6 routines.
As mentioned earlier, I am a bit confused regarding the LDA parameter and will discuss the same in the office hours.

🙌 Thanks I'd like to give

Preemptive thanks to everyone for their patience as I play a bit of cognitive catchup.

✅ Updates from last week

Mainly trying to remember what the heck I was working on before I went on vacay, and triaging what to do next.

🧑‍🎓 One thing I learned last week

Might've been two weeks ago now, but, despite the fact that I've gone through the documentation many times and have been focusing on make stuff for a few weeks, I didn't actually have the right GNU Make setup on my Mac to align with stdlib practices (see: https://github.com/stdlib-js/stdlib/blob/d2f751e2a9be84e74863b07fef380abbeff2fdd4/tools/make/Makefile#L38-L48).

Tip

On macOS, the system-provided Make is 3.81. stdlib uses .SHELLFLAGS which wasn't introduced until GNU Make 3.82+, so stock macOS Make swallows pipeline failures (no pipefail enforcement).
Solution: contributors on macOS need Homebrew GNU Make (brew install make, which installs as gmake) for full safety guarantees.

🔭 My plan for the current week

Continue blog post series work.
Get stdlib make docs into a shape where I can share for feedback.
Solicit more workflow feedback re. what folks are/are not running locally and why. Aim: figure out where to prioritize documentation efforts for contributors (especially those on Windows). WSL2/Dev-Container? MSYS2/Git-Bash?

🙏 Challenges that I've faced and things I'd like help with

Would ✨ LOVE ✨ notes/thoughts as GSoCers go on things that work in unexpected ways, conventions they wish they knew earlier, conventions they know now but weren't written down anywhere, etc.
^^ are there comments you get in PRs that were surprising to you? @ me!!

🏝️ My availability for next week

I'm here.

💬 Important items for discussion

What would the shape of AI agent deployment actually be? I've been working on a few things in addition to just agent-friendly documentation (e.g. "fuzy" linters), but don't know where these might fit into workflows/pipelines (which impacts how they should be written).

@anandkaranubc

🙌 Thanks I'd like to give

Shoutout to @anandkaranubc for helping push forward the extended BLAS work.
Shoutout to @gunjjoshi for submitting talk proposals to iJS Munich. Another shoutout for continuing to push forward the FFT work.
Shoutout to @impawstarlight for his Uint64 work. This and follow-on work will help unlock indexing routines throughout the project, in addition to the PRNG work.
Shoutout to @Planeshifter for some quick CI fixes.

✅ Updates from last week

Last week was a slower week, as I was traveling throughout the week due to the US holiday. Over the weekend, I was playing catch-up.
The usual code and PR review, as time allowed.
Investigated some security advisories related to GitHub action workflows.
Roadmapped and planned a @stdlib/simulate/strided/* namespace. We currently have iterators for generating synthetic datasets. This effort will provide similar dataset generation facilities, but as strided APIs. These APIs will provide a framework for eventually creating top-level ndarray APIs for synthetic dataset generation. @gunjjoshi will be helping out here, with the work being useful for the FFT efforts.
Submitted a couple of talk proposals to iJS Munich. One on "exotic" array types. Another on scaling open source in the age of LLMs. My guess is that the second talk will have a higher chance of being accepted, but we'll see.
Did some minor feature work in the blas/ext/base namespace, with the goal of working up to some useful utilities for BLAS/LAPACK work.

🕵️ Pull requests I reviewed

I reviewed and provided feedback on the following PRs:
- blas/ext/base/cdiff: feat: add blas/ext/base/cdiff stdlib#11744 (via @headlessNode). This gets us a step closer to having a top-level diff API, which can be useful for provide a discrete derivative operator, which has various use cases, including approximating derivatives of a sampled function when solving ODEs/PDEs and in sensitivity analysis, detecting changepoints, removing trends during time series modeling, denoising images, and as part of various solvers.
- fft/base/rffti: feat: add fft/base/fftpack/rffti stdlib#11467 (via @gunjjoshi). This is used for initializing a workspace for computing a real-valued FFT.
- number/uint64/ctor: feat: add number/uint64/ctor stdlib#10908 (via @impawstarlight). This adds a constructor for creating unsigned 64-bit integers. As mentioned above, this is a foundational component for Uint64Arrays, which will behave similarly to ComplexXXArrays which return complex number instances. By having an opaque Uint64 type (opaque meaning that the storage method is not made public to user code), we can avoid BigInt perf cliffs and more readily interoperate with C, and we can more readily have code which more seamlessly works with both built-in numbers and 64-bit integer values (something which is not readily doable with built-in BigInts).
- ...and a number of other PRs.

🧑‍🎓 One thing I learned last week

I learned a bit more about APIs for numerical integration, as I looked into what it would take to implement trapezoid (see NumPy/MATLAB) in stdlib. This led to consideration of higher dimensional integration primitives and their use cases, along with different API design. The TL;DR is that I think we can add integrate and differentiate namespaces and begin working on some of the primitives for numerical integration and differentiation (e.g., trapezoid, trapezoid-uniform, trapezoid2d, trapezoid-uniform-2d, etc). This will also help us with incorporating some of Ricky's work in scijs into stdlib by establishing prior art and package conventions.

🔭 My plan for the current week

The usual code and PR review. Catching up from last week.
Gunj's scaffolding PR and rfft PR.
Getting dtrmm over the finish line.
Various blas/ext/base utilities so that we can remove some internal helper functions from dgemm and friends.
Submitting a couple more conference talk proposals.
Continued ndarray dtype migration.

🙏 Challenges that I've faced and things I'd like help with

Main challenge is PR review prioritization. Still struggling to get the PR queue numbers down, with us consistently hovering around 800 open PRs.

🏝️ My availability for next week

No time off plans. I'll be around.

💬 Important items for discussion

Nothing from me at the moment.

@kgryte

🙌 Thanks I'd like to give

Shoutout to @kgryte and @anandkaranubc for reviewing my PRs, and a special thanks to Karan for the helpful discussion during our 1:1 meeting.

✅ Updates from last week

I worked on dlarf, dlapmr, dlaruv & dlarnv(WIP)

🕵️ Pull requests I reviewed

none.

🧑‍🎓 One thing I learned last week

I learned how fixture generation works.

🔭 My plan for the current week

I plan on working on Week 2 routines and addressing feedback on my open PRs.

🙏 Challenges that I've faced and things I'd like help with

Getting familiar with certain LAPACK routines and their underlying implementation details took some additional time.

🏝️ My availability for next week

I'm here.

💬 Important items for discussion

No major discussion items at the moment.

✅ Updates from last week

I worked on feat: add plot/vega/legend/ctor stdlib#12324 and the feat: add plot/vega/mark/trail/ctor stdlib#12405

🕵️ Pull requests I reviewed

I reviewed and provided feedback on the following PRs:
- None

🧑‍🎓 One thing I learned last week

I learned usage of the trail mark.

🔭 My plan for the current week

I plan on completing the remaining discrete scale types band, point, and some of the transform packages.

🙏 Challenges that I've faced and things I'd like help with

Nothing for now.

🏝️ My availability for next week

I'll be available this week.

💬 Important items for discussion

Nothing at the moment.

@kgryte

🙌 Thanks I'd like to give

Shoutout to @kgryte for reviewing and helping me figure out implementing dkmeans-init-plus-plus.

✅ Updates from last week

I worked on:
- ml/base/kmeans/results/*. (to be reviewed, I have opened some comments in the PR)
- ml/base/kmeans/results/struct-factory. (merged)
- ml/strided/dkmeans-init-plus-plus. (JS implementation is almost done other than some doubts raised on the PR).

🕵️ Pull requests I reviewed

I reviewed and provided feedback on the following PRs:

None.

🧑‍🎓 One thing I learned last week

I learned that splitting a large problem into smaller ones may help make the work easier.

🔭 My plan for the current week

I plan on working on getting dkmeans-init-plus-plus completed and merged. I am running a bit behind the schedule so I am going to lock in this week!!
Get ml/kmeans/results merged. ( waiting for review )
I will also work on unlocking the other two kmeans initialization APIs (dkmeans-init-sample and dkmeans-init-forgy)

🙏 Challenges that I've faced and things I'd like help with

I had a hard time working with PRNG and strided accessing of workspace arrays in nested loops.

🏝️ My availability for next week

I'll be available.

💬 Important items for discussion

Get my comments on ml/base/kmeans/results/* answered.
Get my comments on ml/strided/dkmeans-init-plus-plus answered.

@kgryte

✅ Updates from last week

I worked on adding ndarray packages related to *asum and *sdot.
I worked on refactoring *gemm implementations to replace isMatrixTranspose with resolveStr.
I added a C implementation for blas/base/csscal.

🕵️ Pull requests I reviewed

I reviewed and provided feedback on the following PRs:
- blas/base/dzasum

🧑‍🎓 One thing I learned last week

I learned how BLAS routines such as dzasum and csscal follow established BLAS semantics across implementations, reinforcing the importance of preserving behavioral consistency when developing corresponding variants.

🔭 My plan for the current week

Add ndarray wrappers for *rot and *gemv routines.
Continue refactoring work related to replacing isMatrixTranspose with resolveStr.
Review Level 1 JavaScript implementations for *amax, *dotu, and *dotc routines.

🙏 Challenges that I've faced and things I'd like help with

No major challenges this week.

🏝️ My availability for next week

I will be available throughout the week.

💬 Important items for discussion

@kgryte Discussion regarding guidance in sgbmv on Zulip.

@kgryte

🙌 Thanks I'd like to give

Thanks to @kgryte for reviewing my PRs and bearing with my silly questions on Zulip.

✅ Updates from last week

Completed working on feat: add number/uint64/ctor stdlib#10908 which officially marks the beginning of Uint64 support in stdlib.
Worked on uint64/parse for string to Uint64 conversion, further work remains.
Started updating feat(random): add a new pseudorandom number generator random/base/pcg32 stdlib#6551 to align with canonical PCG32 implementations.
Started working on uint64/base/add.
Added doctesting support for Uint64 in feat: add doctest support for Uint64 stdlib#12476.
Added two assertion packages for Uint64 in feat: add assert/is-uint64 stdlib#12471 and feat: add uint64/base/assert/is-equal stdlib#12508.
Fixed BigInt handling inside Uint64 ctor in fix: ensure BigInts are coerced to number primitives stdlib#12472.

🧑‍🎓 One thing I learned last week

I learned how to use git worktrees and advanced rebasing options to avoid rebase conflicts.
Also learned how to add doctesting support for new types.

🔭 My plan for the current week

I plan on working on uint64/parse, uint64/base/add, and other arithmetic packages for Uint64.

🙏 Challenges that I've faced and things I'd like help with

I had a hard time figuring out how to rebase a branch on top of develop that was initially created from another branch (for unmerged dependency). I managed to resolve it using the --onto flag in git rebase. But I'd like to know how cases like this can be handled in a better way, i.e. how should I structure multiple branches/PRs that depend on each other.

🏝️ My availability for next week

Always on 🔆

💬 Important items for discussion

Nothing major at the moment.

@impawstarlight

@impawstarlight 🥳 on the advanced rebase. I’ve lost many a war with that same maneuver over the trees 😜

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