Over a two-month period, contributed to both fluent/fluentd and go-vikunja/vikunja by focusing on reliability and usability improvements. In fluentd, addressed network handshake stability by implementing a timeout safeguard in establish_connection, leveraging existing hard_timeout logic to prevent infinite loops and disable unresponsive nodes, with supporting regression tests to ensure robust error handling. For go-vikunja/vikunja, enhanced task management by adding an optional Project column to the task table view, enabling cross-project visibility without disrupting existing workflows. Additionally, improved log-forwarding reliability in fluentd by introducing TCP keepalive support in the out_forward plugin. Work utilized JavaScript, Ruby, Vue, and network programming.