Well, somehow another summer* has come to a close and, with it, this year's Google Summer of Code has all but wrapped up! A little GSoC speedrun If you aren't familiar with Google Summer of Code ("GSoC", for the rest of this post to save my weary fingers), it's a yearly program that Google runs in which they pay people to successfully contribute features and improvements to free and open source software ("FOSS") projects like ours. It's hopefully a win-win for all parties involved: it's a decent summer gig and learning experience for the contributor, it incentivizes new people to dip their toes into the world of FOSS contribution, and it theoretically strengthens the ecosystem of FOSS software that companies like Google rely heavily on.