Ticki was an active member of the Rust community, whose contribution was energetically and cheerfully campaigning for ambitious features. Sometimes perhaps a little too ambitious, but that's a useful kind of person to have in a community.

For example, Ticki wrote an early proposal for type-level integers, which everyone knows Rust needs eventually, but hadn't been able to work up a concrete proposal for:

https://github.com/ticki/rfcs/blob/pi-types/text/0000-pi-typ...

Outside the core project, Ticki was involved with RedoxOS, an OS written in Rust:

https://github.com/redox-os/redox#-ecosystem-

Particularly the TFS filesystem:

https://github.com/redox-os/tfs

TFS naver came to fruition, so RedoxOS still runs on its original filesystem, RedoxFS.

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