arXiv/arxiv-browse
Oct 2024 – Oct 2025
9 Months active
Languages Used
HTMLJinjaCSSPythonJavaScript
Technical Skills
Front-end DevelopmentSEO OptimizationAPI TestingBackend DevelopmentCSSFront End Development
kyokukou
PROFILE
Kyokukou
Erin contributed to arXiv/arxiv-browse by designing and implementing a series of user-facing banners and UI enhancements that improved communication, engagement, and site reliability. Over nine months, Erin delivered features such as configurable promotional banners, targeted fundraising and recruitment messaging, and dynamic maintenance notices, using technologies including Python, JavaScript, and templating with Jinja. Erin’s approach emphasized maintainability and traceability, with parameterized logic, robust cookie handling, and date-based gating to ensure precise feature activation. The work addressed both business and technical needs, balancing marketing goals with user experience, and included thorough testing and validation to support long-term code quality.
Overall Statistics
Feature vs Bugs
75%Features
Repository Contributions
22Total
Bugs
4
Commits
22
Features
12
Lines of code
561
Activity Months9
Your Network
17 peopleSame Organization
@arxiv.org5
Work History
October 2025
1 Commits • 1 Features
Oct 1, 2025October 2025 monthly summary for arXiv/arxiv-browse focusing on delivering a promotional Open Access Week banner and associated value. The work centered on a targeted front-end banner update to support OA Week visibility and donor engagement, with a single commit driving the change.
1 Commits • 1 Features
Oct 1, 2025October 2025 monthly summary for arXiv/arxiv-browse focusing on delivering a promotional Open Access Week banner and associated value. The work centered on a targeted front-end banner update to support OA Week visibility and donor engagement, with a single commit driving the change.
October 2025
August 2025
1 Commits • 1 Features
Aug 1, 2025August 2025 monthly summary for arXiv/arxiv-browse: Delivered a configurable Promotional Banner System enabling dynamic banners, including a birthday-themed banner. Refactored banner display logic to be parameterized, updated cookie handling to support multiple configurable banners, and ensured banners display based on end dates and user interactions. This set the foundation for flexible marketing campaigns and improved user engagement with targeted promotions.
August 2025
1 Commits • 1 Features
Aug 1, 2025August 2025 monthly summary for arXiv/arxiv-browse: Delivered a configurable Promotional Banner System enabling dynamic banners, including a birthday-themed banner. Refactored banner display logic to be parameterized, updated cookie handling to support multiple configurable banners, and ensured banners display based on end dates and user interactions. This set the foundation for flexible marketing campaigns and improved user engagement with targeted promotions.
May 2025
2 Commits • 2 Features
May 1, 2025May 2025 monthly summary for arXiv/arxiv-browse: Delivered two key UI features during the month with clear business value. No major bugs reported or fixed in this period. Overall impact is improved user communication during maintenance and more accurate marketing banners, supported by clean, traceable commits.
2 Commits • 2 Features
May 1, 2025May 2025 monthly summary for arXiv/arxiv-browse: Delivered two key UI features during the month with clear business value. No major bugs reported or fixed in this period. Overall impact is improved user communication during maintenance and more accurate marketing banners, supported by clean, traceable commits.
May 2025
April 2025
2 Commits • 1 Features
Apr 1, 2025April 2025 monthly highlights: Delivered the Recruitment Banner enhancement for arXiv/arxiv-browse to better attract software developers, with a scheduled run window and standardized cookie handling to ensure consistent display. The banner messaging was refined for conciseness and impact, emphasizing open science contributions. No major bugs fixed this month; focus remained on high-value business and technical improvements to candidate reach and site reliability.
April 2025
2 Commits • 1 Features
Apr 1, 2025April 2025 monthly highlights: Delivered the Recruitment Banner enhancement for arXiv/arxiv-browse to better attract software developers, with a scheduled run window and standardized cookie handling to ensure consistent display. The banner messaging was refined for conciseness and impact, emphasizing open science contributions. No major bugs fixed this month; focus remained on high-value business and technical improvements to candidate reach and site reliability.
March 2025
3 Commits • 2 Features
Mar 1, 2025March 2025: Delivered business-value UI updates in arXiv/arxiv-browse. Key feature: Giving Day Donation Banner in partnership with Hugging Face, activated for March 13, 2025, with updated styling and donation links to boost fundraising visibility. Minor UX/content improvements included renaming the extras heading from 'Bonus Features' to 'Additional Features' for clarity. No major bugs fixed this month; changes were small, cohesive, and low-risk. Impact: improved donor engagement, clearer feature communication, and a more maintainable codebase.
3 Commits • 2 Features
Mar 1, 2025March 2025: Delivered business-value UI updates in arXiv/arxiv-browse. Key feature: Giving Day Donation Banner in partnership with Hugging Face, activated for March 13, 2025, with updated styling and donation links to boost fundraising visibility. Minor UX/content improvements included renaming the extras heading from 'Bonus Features' to 'Additional Features' for clarity. No major bugs fixed this month; changes were small, cohesive, and low-risk. Impact: improved donor engagement, clearer feature communication, and a more maintainable codebase.
March 2025
February 2025
5 Commits • 2 Features
Feb 1, 2025February 2025 focused on delivering user-facing enhancements, strengthening API safety, and expanding test coverage. Key outcomes include more accurate article titles, reliable ScienceCast audio presentation, and robust input validation for list displays, driving a smoother user experience and reducing invalid data exposure. All changes are in arXiv/arxiv-browse and supported by targeted tests to ensure long-term maintainability.
February 2025
5 Commits • 2 Features
Feb 1, 2025February 2025 focused on delivering user-facing enhancements, strengthening API safety, and expanding test coverage. Key outcomes include more accurate article titles, reliable ScienceCast audio presentation, and robust input validation for list displays, driving a smoother user experience and reducing invalid data exposure. All changes are in arXiv/arxiv-browse and supported by targeted tests to ensure long-term maintainability.
January 2025
2 Commits • 1 Features
Jan 1, 2025January 2025 – arXiv/arxiv-browse: Delivered a date-bound User Feedback Survey Banner in the desktop header to capture timely insights from active browse users. Updated the base template to activate the banner starting January 16, 2025, enabling a controlled rollout with minimal UX impact. No critical bugs fixed in this scope. This work strengthens the feedback loop, informs prioritization, and demonstrates robust templating and feature-flag readiness.
2 Commits • 1 Features
Jan 1, 2025January 2025 – arXiv/arxiv-browse: Delivered a date-bound User Feedback Survey Banner in the desktop header to capture timely insights from active browse users. Updated the base template to activate the banner starting January 16, 2025, enabling a controlled rollout with minimal UX impact. No critical bugs fixed in this scope. This work strengthens the feedback loop, informs prioritization, and demonstrates robust templating and feature-flag readiness.
January 2025
December 2024
5 Commits • 1 Features
Dec 1, 2024December 2024 monthly summary for arXiv/arxiv-browse. Focused on delivering a streamlined Giving Tuesday banner experience, stabilizing UI rendering, and strengthening test determinism. Key outcomes include a user banner UX overhaul that clarifies the banner and removes a confusing close-slider option, improved journal reference rendering to prevent layout overflow, a stylesheet cache-busting release to ensure users see latest styles, and deterministic catchup caching tests to remove date-based flakiness. These efforts collectively improve user experience during fundraising campaigns, boost UI consistency across browsers, and reduce maintenance risk by more deterministic tests.
December 2024
5 Commits • 1 Features
Dec 1, 2024December 2024 monthly summary for arXiv/arxiv-browse. Focused on delivering a streamlined Giving Tuesday banner experience, stabilizing UI rendering, and strengthening test determinism. Key outcomes include a user banner UX overhaul that clarifies the banner and removes a confusing close-slider option, improved journal reference rendering to prevent layout overflow, a stylesheet cache-busting release to ensure users see latest styles, and deterministic catchup caching tests to remove date-based flakiness. These efforts collectively improve user experience during fundraising campaigns, boost UI consistency across browsers, and reduce maintenance risk by more deterministic tests.
October 2024
1 Commits • 1 Features
Oct 1, 2024Month: 2024-10 — Summary of activity for arXiv/arxiv-browse. Key accomplishment: delivered a focused SEO improvement on abstract pages by adding rel="nofollow" to internal links, preventing search engines from following those links. This preserves external link equity, reduces crawl waste, and improves user navigation by directing users to intended content. The change is tracked in a single commit (8f2bc2d3239311eb9e631618972ddbe1f89b1a06). No major bugs reported this month; no rollback needed. This month’s work demonstrates an emphasis on SEO hygiene, maintainability, and precise, surgical changes with clear traceability.
1 Commits • 1 Features
Oct 1, 2024Month: 2024-10 — Summary of activity for arXiv/arxiv-browse. Key accomplishment: delivered a focused SEO improvement on abstract pages by adding rel="nofollow" to internal links, preventing search engines from following those links. This preserves external link equity, reduces crawl waste, and improves user navigation by directing users to intended content. The change is tracked in a single commit (8f2bc2d3239311eb9e631618972ddbe1f89b1a06). No major bugs reported this month; no rollback needed. This month’s work demonstrates an emphasis on SEO hygiene, maintainability, and precise, surgical changes with clear traceability.
October 2024
Activity
Loading activity data...
Quality Metrics
Correctness95.4%
Maintainability95.0%
Architecture92.8%
Performance95.4%
AI Usage20.0%
Skills & Technologies
Programming Languages
CSSHTMLJavaScriptJinjaPython
Technical Skills
API DevelopmentAPI TestingBackend DevelopmentCSSError HandlingFront End DevelopmentFront-end DevelopmentFrontend DevelopmentHTMLJavaScriptPythonSEO OptimizationTemplatingTestingWeb Development
Repositories Contributed To
Overview of all repositories you've contributed to across your timeline