During this period, Panagiotis Karakalas contributed to both the grafana/alloy and ghostty-org/ghostty repositories, focusing on backend development, authentication, and desktop application reliability. In grafana/alloy, he implemented htpasswd-based server authentication for the otelcol component, introducing a client authentication block and updating documentation to enhance security and configuration flexibility using Go and Markdown. For ghostty-org/ghostty, he addressed a critical off-by-one bug in tab navigation, ensuring correct tab selection across platforms with targeted Zig programming. His work demonstrated careful attention to cross-platform correctness, code quality, and collaborative development, delivering both new features and stability improvements within a short timeframe.