OpenSpace/OpenSpace
Nov 2024 – Jul 2026
10 Months active
Languages Used
C++BatchfileLua
Technical Skills
C++ developmenterror handlingsoftware validationC++deployment automationdocumentation
Ylva Selling
PROFILE
Ylva Selling
Worked extensively on the OpenSpace/OpenSpace repository, delivering features and fixes across UI, rendering, and data management. Built tools like the Asset Builder and Getting Started Tour to streamline onboarding and asset workflows, while refactoring core systems such as topic management for maintainability. Enhanced simulation fidelity by updating celestial body data and integrating SPICE kernels, and improved rendering with shader development and accelerated Sky Browser visualization. Addressed stability and deployment through defensive C++ programming, Lua scripting, and Qt integration, focusing on error handling, validation, and code clarity. The work demonstrated depth in graphics programming, software architecture, and user experience design.
Overall Statistics
Feature vs Bugs
56%Features
Repository Contributions
21Total
Bugs
7
Commits
21
Features
9
Lines of code
32,801
Activity Months10
Your Network
23 peopleShared Repositories
23
Work History
July 2026
1 Commits
Jul 1, 2026July 2026 monthly summary for OpenSpace/OpenSpace. Key accomplishment: resolved a globe skirt rendering artifact under transparency. Implemented an isSkirt flag in the vertex shader output and applied the flag in the fragment shader to discard skirt pixels, eliminating stretched edges when globe opacity is less than 1.0. The fix was delivered in a focused commit (f20a6ba2c39fef0d1b01823e461cfe585f6fe981) with PR comments addressed; co-authored by Alexander Bock. This improves rendering fidelity during globe exploration and reduces user-facing visual defects.
1 Commits
Jul 1, 2026July 2026 monthly summary for OpenSpace/OpenSpace. Key accomplishment: resolved a globe skirt rendering artifact under transparency. Implemented an isSkirt flag in the vertex shader output and applied the flag in the fragment shader to discard skirt pixels, eliminating stretched edges when globe opacity is less than 1.0. The fix was delivered in a focused commit (f20a6ba2c39fef0d1b01823e461cfe585f6fe981) with PR comments addressed; co-authored by Alexander Bock. This improves rendering fidelity during globe exploration and reduces user-facing visual defects.
July 2026
June 2026
4 Commits • 1 Features
Jun 1, 2026June 2026 monthly summary for OpenSpace/OpenSpace. Focused on Sky Browser rendering enhancements, module upgrade, and a critical compile-time fix to ensure robust type handling in lambdas. Delivered higher visual fidelity, improved rendering performance paths, and a more maintainable build with fewer runtime issues.
June 2026
4 Commits • 1 Features
Jun 1, 2026June 2026 monthly summary for OpenSpace/OpenSpace. Focused on Sky Browser rendering enhancements, module upgrade, and a critical compile-time fix to ensure robust type handling in lambdas. Delivered higher visual fidelity, improved rendering performance paths, and a more maintainable build with fewer runtime issues.
May 2026
1 Commits • 1 Features
May 1, 2026OpenSpace/OpenSpace — May 2026: Delivered the Asset Builder feature enabling creation, editing, and management of assets through a multi-panel editor with integrated dependency management and metadata handling. Commit 7a0888f356d6319f10059355186099751314ca27 ("Asset Builder (#4012)"). This release enhances asset workflow efficiency, improves data governance, and reduces toil by centralizing asset management. No major bugs recorded; feature stabilized through QA.
1 Commits • 1 Features
May 1, 2026OpenSpace/OpenSpace — May 2026: Delivered the Asset Builder feature enabling creation, editing, and management of assets through a multi-panel editor with integrated dependency management and metadata handling. Commit 7a0888f356d6319f10059355186099751314ca27 ("Asset Builder (#4012)"). This release enhances asset workflow efficiency, improves data governance, and reduces toil by centralizing asset management. No major bugs recorded; feature stabilized through QA.
May 2026
April 2026
1 Commits • 1 Features
Apr 1, 2026April 2026 monthly summary for OpenSpace/OpenSpace. Delivered major celestial body updates and SPICE kernel upgrades, including new moons, kernel version bumps, and code restructuring to improve accuracy, maintainability, and data integrity. This work enhances simulation fidelity for researchers and supports scalable future extensions.
April 2026
1 Commits • 1 Features
Apr 1, 2026April 2026 monthly summary for OpenSpace/OpenSpace. Delivered major celestial body updates and SPICE kernel upgrades, including new moons, kernel version bumps, and code restructuring to improve accuracy, maintainability, and data integrity. This work enhances simulation fidelity for researchers and supports scalable future extensions.
March 2026
1 Commits • 1 Features
Mar 1, 2026March 2026: OpenSpace/OpenSpace focused on stabilizing and modernizing the topic management subsystem. Delivered the Topic Management System Refactor, introducing a new property tree topic, reorganizing topic code paths, and tightening topic update/metadata handling to improve reliability and maintainability. Refactor included moving files to align with the new module structure, along with docs updates and code cleanup to address PR feedback. Implemented safeguards to prevent crashes during TopicManager deinitialization and adjusted topic data flows (e.g., topic update timing) to reduce edge-case failures. Result: a more modular, scalable topic architecture with clearer ownership and easier future enhancements.
1 Commits • 1 Features
Mar 1, 2026March 2026: OpenSpace/OpenSpace focused on stabilizing and modernizing the topic management subsystem. Delivered the Topic Management System Refactor, introducing a new property tree topic, reorganizing topic code paths, and tightening topic update/metadata handling to improve reliability and maintainability. Refactor included moving files to align with the new module structure, along with docs updates and code cleanup to address PR feedback. Implemented safeguards to prevent crashes during TopicManager deinitialization and adjusted topic data flows (e.g., topic update timing) to reduce edge-case failures. Result: a more modular, scalable topic architecture with clearer ownership and easier future enhancements.
March 2026
October 2025
1 Commits • 1 Features
Oct 1, 20252025-10 monthly summary for OpenSpace/OpenSpace: Delivered Saturn scale factors in the night sky visualization, enabling adjustable size settings and improving visual realism. This feature enhances user customization and aligns with the project goal of more accurate celestial representations. No major bugs were fixed this month; changes focused on feature delivery and integration, with validation across multiple night-sky configurations. Overall, the work strengthens the product's fidelity and user experience while advancing the rendering capabilities of the OpenSpace platform.
October 2025
1 Commits • 1 Features
Oct 1, 20252025-10 monthly summary for OpenSpace/OpenSpace: Delivered Saturn scale factors in the night sky visualization, enabling adjustable size settings and improving visual realism. This feature enhances user customization and aligns with the project goal of more accurate celestial representations. No major bugs were fixed this month; changes focused on feature delivery and integration, with validation across multiple night-sky configurations. Overall, the work strengthens the product's fidelity and user experience while advancing the rendering capabilities of the OpenSpace platform.
June 2025
3 Commits • 2 Features
Jun 1, 2025June 2025 delivered user onboarding enhancement, stability improvements, and codebase clarity gains across OpenSpace/OpenSpace. Key accomplishments include launching the Getting Started Tour to accelerate time-to-value for new users, stabilizing SkyBrowser with accelerated rendering and reliable reload/update of sky browser settings, and clarifying the codebase by renaming the internal GUI endpoint from 'frontend' to 'gui' without user-facing impact. These efforts improved onboarding effectiveness, reduced crash risk, and improved maintainability and future readiness of the frontend and rendering components.
3 Commits • 2 Features
Jun 1, 2025June 2025 delivered user onboarding enhancement, stability improvements, and codebase clarity gains across OpenSpace/OpenSpace. Key accomplishments include launching the Getting Started Tour to accelerate time-to-value for new users, stabilizing SkyBrowser with accelerated rendering and reliable reload/update of sky browser settings, and clarifying the codebase by renaming the internal GUI endpoint from 'frontend' to 'gui' without user-facing impact. These efforts improved onboarding effectiveness, reduced crash risk, and improved maintainability and future readiness of the frontend and rendering components.
June 2025
April 2025
4 Commits • 1 Features
Apr 1, 2025April 2025 — OpenSpace/OpenSpace delivered a major UI overhaul and stability improvements, focusing on faster, more intuitive interactions and more robust mission workflows. Key outcomes include a comprehensive UI redesign with enhanced keybindings and a more structured data flow for UI components, improved mission event handling, and a more maintainable UI architecture. In addition, the release fixed a critical out-of-bounds crash by ensuring safe default values and removing redundant notifyChangeListeners calls, leading to improved runtime performance. A dashboard UI alignment fix corrected a vertical offset issue to ensure accurate visuals. Overall, these changes reduce user friction, accelerate mission planning, and increase system reliability.
April 2025
4 Commits • 1 Features
Apr 1, 2025April 2025 — OpenSpace/OpenSpace delivered a major UI overhaul and stability improvements, focusing on faster, more intuitive interactions and more robust mission workflows. Key outcomes include a comprehensive UI redesign with enhanced keybindings and a more structured data flow for UI components, improved mission event handling, and a more maintainable UI architecture. In addition, the release fixed a critical out-of-bounds crash by ensuring safe default values and removing redundant notifyChangeListeners calls, leading to improved runtime performance. A dashboard UI alignment fix corrected a vertical offset issue to ensure accurate visuals. Overall, these changes reduce user friction, accelerate mission planning, and increase system reliability.
February 2025
3 Commits • 1 Features
Feb 1, 2025February 2025 (OpenSpace/OpenSpace): Focused on reliability and documentation integrity. Delivered a pre-deployment check that verifies 7-Zip is installed prior to deployment, reducing deployment failures and enabling earlier failure detection in the pipeline. Strengthened documentation quality by fixing broken code-generation links and adding validation to exclude documents without identifiers from final output, improving data integrity and developer trust. These changes demonstrate strong scripting/automation, tooling integration, and a commitment to data quality, delivering tangible business value through more reliable deployments and cleaner documentation.
3 Commits • 1 Features
Feb 1, 2025February 2025 (OpenSpace/OpenSpace): Focused on reliability and documentation integrity. Delivered a pre-deployment check that verifies 7-Zip is installed prior to deployment, reducing deployment failures and enabling earlier failure detection in the pipeline. Strengthened documentation quality by fixing broken code-generation links and adding validation to exclude documents without identifiers from final output, improving data integrity and developer trust. These changes demonstrate strong scripting/automation, tooling integration, and a commitment to data quality, delivering tangible business value through more reliable deployments and cleaner documentation.
February 2025
November 2024
2 Commits
Nov 1, 2024Month 2024-11: URI validation robustness and consistency improvements in OpenSpace/OpenSpace. Key features delivered include hardened URI validation to prevent empty-string identifiers for invalid/empty URIs and restoration of property URI validation to maintain consistent URI generation across ownership and property contexts. Major bugs fixed include correcting behavior where invalid or missing URIs could produce malformed or empty identifiers, thereby preventing downstream errors in URI generation. Overall impact includes improved data integrity, stability, and reduced troubleshooting in URI-related workflows. Technologies and skills demonstrated involve defensive validation, regression-safe incremental changes, and traceable commits across modules.
November 2024
2 Commits
Nov 1, 2024Month 2024-11: URI validation robustness and consistency improvements in OpenSpace/OpenSpace. Key features delivered include hardened URI validation to prevent empty-string identifiers for invalid/empty URIs and restoration of property URI validation to maintain consistent URI generation across ownership and property contexts. Major bugs fixed include correcting behavior where invalid or missing URIs could produce malformed or empty identifiers, thereby preventing downstream errors in URI generation. Overall impact includes improved data integrity, stability, and reduced troubleshooting in URI-related workflows. Technologies and skills demonstrated involve defensive validation, regression-safe incremental changes, and traceable commits across modules.
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Quality Metrics
Correctness94.2%
Maintainability88.6%
Architecture87.6%
Performance87.6%
AI Usage29.6%
Skills & Technologies
Programming Languages
BatchfileC++Lua
Technical Skills
3D modelingAPI updatesC++C++ ProgrammingC++ developmentC++ programmingCode RefactoringDocumentationEvent HandlingGLSLGame DevelopmentGraphics ProgrammingLua ScriptingLua scriptingOpenGL
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