Weekly Standup (2026-08-03)

🎉 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.

Copy and paste the template below, and answer questions as needed!

**🙌 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

Please make sure pull request labels and draft status reflect the current status of your work!

@stdlib-js/gsoc-2026

@aayush0325

🙌 Thanks I'd like to give

@aayush0325 for reviewing my PRs.

✅ Updates from last week

I worked on dormlq, dormqr and dlasq1 routines.

🕵️ Pull requests I reviewed

None

🧑🎓 One thing I learned last week

I explored alternate testing strategies for higher level LAPACK routines, will discuss them in office hours.

🔭 My plan for the current week

I plan on working on dgeqrf, dgelqf and dorgbr routines.

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

None

🏝️ My availability for next week

I'll be available.

@anandkaranubc

🙌 Thanks I'd like to give

Thanks to @anandkaranubc and @kgryte for writing great blog posts.

✅ Updates from last week

Maintainer quiz—still a bit of a slow journey, but I think it's shaping up to be a fun piece. (Bonus: learned which JS front-end frameworks/build tools to use along the way).
Alignment/matching-markets post—the substrate here is legit rich, and I think it could be REALLY good if I land it right.
Blog-theme work. I'm doing it!

🕵️ Pull requests I reviewed

👩‍🎓 One thing I learned last week

Went deep on Ghost's theming system this week—how Handlebars templates drive the layout, how CSS loading order actually resolves, and the rest of the moving parts under the hood. Feels like I finally have a real mental model of the theme instead of just poking at it.

🔭 My plan for the current week

Ship the cosmo-quiz wrapper post (depending on other post scheduling—gotta get that sequencing right).
Learn enough OpenShot to be dangerous, ship to stdlib YouTube.
V8 blog for the week after—now that we've mentioned it in office hours, it's gotta happen.

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

A bit of a struggle bus figuring out my first Preact SPA vis-à-vis best practices, what goes where, and accessibility implementation was harder than I'd imagined. I'm guessing I should've started with accessibility in mind in the scaffolding, but am still not totally sure what that would have entailed…

🏝️ My availability for next week

I'll be around all week.

@anandkaranubc

🙌 Thanks I'd like to give

@anandkaranubc for helping with PR cleanup, reviewing my PRs, and for our weekly 1:1 discussions on implementation details and future work.
@kgryte for reviewing my PRs and providing detailed feedback.

✅ Updates from last week

I worked on routine dlagts
Reviewed the feedback on my open PRs and refactored them accordingly.

🕵️ Pull requests I reviewed

I reviewed and provided feedback on the following PRs:

🧑🎓 One thing I learned last week

I learned better ways to refactor code and improve code quality from karan review feedback and our weekly discussions.

🔭 My plan for the current week

This week, my focus is on getting my existing PRs merged rather than starting new implementations. I’ll continue addressing review feedback, refactoring my open PRs as needed, and will post an update whenever a routine is ready for review and merge.

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

none

🏝️ My availability for next week

I'll be available all week.

@kgryte

🙌 Thanks I'd like to give

@kgryte for reviewing my PRs.

✅ Updates from last week

I worked on refactoring the rect, arc, area, and path marks, along with their encoding sets, encoding, and assertion modules.

🕵️ Pull requests I reviewed

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

🧑🎓 One thing I learned last week

I learned that marks shouldn’t define default values. Instead, defaults should be handled at runtime by the Vega engine.

🔭 My plan for the current week

I plan on working on finishing the remaining mark types, such as trail, text, and image.

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

Nothing for now.

🏝️ My availability for next week

I'll be available.

💬 Important items for discussion

None

✅ Updates from last week

I worked on adding blas/ext/base/* packages, specifically: striu, dtriu, ztriu, ctriu, stril, dtril, and gtril.

🕵️ Pull requests I reviewed

I reviewed and provided feedback on the following PRs:

None for this week.

🧑🎓 One thing I learned last week

I learned how to efficiently implement nested strided loops in base.js memory access patterns.

🔭 My plan for the current week

I plan on working on the following implementations:

ctril, ztril, dtriu2tril, striu2tril, gtriu2tril, ctriu2tril, ztriu2tril under blas/ext/base/* namespace.

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

Nothing for Now.

🏝️ My availability for next week

I am fully available for next week.

💬 Important items for discussion

Nothing important to discuss for now.

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