Arian Mollik Wasi

Programmer, photographer, open source contributor, and traveller.

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across 14 published packages

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13ft

My own custom self-hosted 12ft.io replacement. It allows you to bypass or remove any paywall!

4234 Stars 226 Forks 1M+ Downloads
GitHub Documentation Use
Tags:
Python
Flask
Self-hosted
Documentation:
GitHub README
Markdown

Rich RST

A reStructuredText renderer for the python library rich. Renders RST documents in the terminal using ASCII characters

20 Stars 7 Forks 460M+ Downloads
GitHub PyPI Documentation
Tags:
Python
Rich
reStructuredText
Documentation:
Read the Docs
Sphinx
reStructuredText

Fastero

Python timeit CLI for the 21ˢᵗ century! colored output, multi-line input with syntax highlighting and autocompletion and much more!

245 Stars 7 Forks 31.4K+ Downloads
GitHub Documentation PyPI
Tags:
Python
CLI
Rich
Benchmarking
Documentation:
Read the Docs
Sphinx
Furo
reStructuredText

PyPI Command Line

A powerful, colorful, beautiful command-line-interface for pypi.org

55 Stars 7 Forks 127K+ Downloads
GitHub PyPI Documentation
Tags:
Python
CLI
Rich
PyPI
Documentation:
MkDocs
MkDocs Material
Markdown

Typesplainer

A Python typehint explainer available in a CLI environment, Website, and IDE Plugins. Parses python files and finds typehints then explains them!

84 Stars 2 Forks 33K+ Downloads
GitHub PyPI Use
Tags:
Python
CLI
Rich
Typehints

WM Bot

A discord bot comprising of 220+ commands. It took more than 1000 hours to make and is my biggest project. It is entirely open source and self-hostable

27 Stars 21 Forks
GitHub Documentation Use
Tags:
Python
Discord
Bot
Rich
APIs
Documentation:
GitHub Pages
Jekyll
Markdown

Contributions

Code shipped into other people’s projects

Testimonials

Will McGugan
WM

Will McGugan

@willmcgugan Creator of Rich & Textual • PSF Fellow

"If you are in the Python world, I'd recommend giving @wasi_master a follow."

"He built Typesplainer in 2 days. Wouldn't be surprised if he comes up with more amazing projects."

Nelson Minar
NM

Nelson Minar

u/NelsonMinar Early Google Software Engineer

"Congratulations! That's a very impressive project. Really professional work."

"You didn't just write some useful code, you've made a whole product. Fancy UI, packaged properly on GitHub and PyPI, even a bunch of illustration GIFs."

Hacker News
HN

Hacker News

Front Page #1 Community Spotlight

#1 on Hacker News Front Page with 618 points, 263 comments

[My project 13ft reached #1 on the Hacker News front page, generating massive discussion about paywall bypassing, self-hosting, and web accessibility.]

Simon Willison
SW

Simon Willison

@simonw Django Co-creator • Datasette Creator

"A Python module that produces human-readable English descriptions of Python type definitions"

"typesplainer — A Python module that produces human-readable English descriptions of Python type definitions — also available as a web interface."

Raymond Hettinger
RH

Raymond Hettinger

@raymondh Python Core Developer • PSF Fellow

"Oooh, that's pretty!"

[Praise for Typesplainer's human-readable typing description design on Twitter, highlighting the aesthetic and intuitive presentation of Python type definitions.]

Michael Kennedy
MK

Michael Kennedy

Python Bytes Podcast Podcast Host • PSF Fellow

"This is really cool... way more legible and internalizable."

"The description is something like 'dictionary that maps a list of sets...' — that's way more legible and internalizable than how many brackets deep we were in that type information."

Zeno Rocha
ZR

Zeno Rocha

@draculatheme Creator of Dracula Theme • CEO of Resend

"This awesome theme was built by @wasi_master. It looks amazing indeed ;)"

[Official endorsement for the Dracula Theme for Code::Blocks, celebrating the aesthetic execution and professional standard.]

Will McGugan
WM

Will McGugan

@willmcgugan Creator of Rich • PSF Fellow

"The author is 14 years old — blown me away. He's done a very good job of it."

"I found this project on reddit and it's called PyPI command line. It's notable because the author is 14 years old — blown me away. Someone could be that young, he's done a very good job of it."

Henry Schreiner III
HS

Henry Schreiner III

@HenrySchreiner3 Princeton RSE • PyPA Core Contributor

"I asked for a new feature, and it's already in... Thanks, @wasi_master!"

"'pipx run pypi-command-line wheels <package>' prints all wheels for the latest release of a package (in beautiful Rich styling, of course)."

Rhet Turnbull
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Rhet Turnbull

@RhetTbull Python Developer • Creator of osxphotos

"Thank you for the very useful utility! It's especially impressive given your age."

"First, just wanted to say thank you for the very useful utility! It's especially impressive given your age. Well done!"

Zambyte
ZB

Robby Zambito

Zambyte Hacker News Community

"This is awesome! People who use Kagi can also set up a regex redirect..."

"This is awesome! People who use Kagi can also set up a regex redirect to automatically use this for problematic sites."

Neekyboi
NB

Neekyboi

u/neekyboi Python Subreddit Community

"You write and sound like some of the experienced peeps I have seen."

"you write and sound like some of the experienced peeps i have seen"

Adam Johnson
AJ

Adam Johnson

@AdamChainz Django Core Contributor • Python Author

"Nice one @wasi_master !"

[Praise for Typesplainer's Python typing parsing on Twitter, sharing the tool with the Python typing community.]

Journey

  1. March 2020

    The Beginning

    Joined Stack Overflow and GitHub within a week of each other. Started answering Python questions and never really stopped.

  2. April 2020

    WM Bot & the Learning Year

    Started building WM Bot privately, and spent the next year learning Python and web development while working on the bot and other web projects.

  3. August 2021

    First Packages on PyPI

    Open-sourced WM Bot, a Discord bot with 200+ commands, and published the first of 14 packages on PyPI: dpylint, todot, and sponsorblock.py.

  4. September 2021

    A Quiet Release

    Put rich-rst v0.1.0 up on PyPI with zero fanfare. Nobody noticed. Yet.

  5. October 2021

    pypi-command-line Gets Noticed

    Launched pypi-command-line and posted it on r/Python, where it caught the eye of Will McGugan, creator of Rich. Within weeks it was praised by a PyPA core contributor and featured on the Python Bytes podcast.

  6. Late 2021

    Small Sharp Tools

    Kept shipping: charinfo for inspecting Unicode characters, gradient-figlet for colorful ASCII banners, and google-tui, Google in the terminal, early the next year.

  7. January 2022

    Built 13ft

    Built 13ft, a self-hosted alternative to 12ft.io. It would sit quietly for almost two years.

  8. January 2022

    The Dracula Phase

    Went deep on theming: built the Codeblocks theme and worked on Dracula CLI, both now under the official Dracula organization, earning a shoutout from the Dracula team.

  9. February 2022

    The Ecosystem Takes Notice

    Textualize’s official rich-cli shipped with rich-rst as a dependency. The quiet release started picking up speed.

  10. March 2022

    Typesplainer, Built in 2 Days

    Built Typesplainer in two days. Simon Willison blogged about it, Will McGugan told his followers to follow @wasi_master, and Raymond Hettinger, Python core developer, shared it too. It now lives under its own organization.

  11. March 2022

    The Podcast Invite

    Invited on the Alfa Coding Podcast two days later. Spent 43 minutes talking about pypi-command-line, Typesplainer, and building things in public at 14.

  12. April 2022

    fastero

    Released fastero, a Python timeit CLI with beautiful output. It went on to collect 245+ stars.

  13. April 2022

    The Cybersecurity Detour

    Dove into cybersecurity: completed picoCTF challenges and picked up the fundamentals of binary exploitation, forensics, and web security along the way.

  14. Late 2023

    13ft Wakes Up

    As 12ft.io faltered, people started finding the self-hosted alternative. 13ft’s stars began to climb.

  15. August 2024

    #1 on Hacker News

    13ft hit the top of Hacker News with 618 points. Nearly 2,000 stars in a single month, on its way to 4,200+.

  16. July 2025

    The Dependency Chain

    cyclopts, a modern CLI framework, had picked rich-rst for rendering its docs. Then FastMCP adopted cyclopts, and every install of the most popular MCP framework pulled rich-rst along with it. Downloads went vertical.

  17. Today

    465M+ Downloads & Counting

    rich-rst powers tools across the Python ecosystem at 91M+ downloads a month. The quiet release turned out to be the loudest one.

PC Specs

Desktop computer hardware specifications
Item Type Item Model
Laptop Apple Macbook Air M2 2022 16/256
CPU AMD Ryzen 5 3600
Graphics Card MSI GeForce GTX 1660 Super Ventus XS OC 6GB Graphics Card
RAM PNY XLR8 EPIC-X RGB 8GB DDR4 3200MHz
Motherboard MSI B450 TOMAHAWK MAX II AM4 AMD ATX Motherboard
HDD Toshiba P300 1TB 3.5-Inch SATA 7200RPM Desktop HDD
Toshiba P300 2TB 3.5-Inch SATA 5400RPM Desktop HDD
Seagate Momentus Thin ST500LT012 500GB 2.5-Inch Laptop HDD
Seagate Momentus ST9320423AS 320 GB 2.5-Inch Laptop HDD
SSD HP EX900 M.2 500GB PCIe NVMe Internal SSD
HP EX900 M.2 120GB PCIe NVMe Internal SSD
Power Supply Antec VP550 Plus 550W Non Modular Power Supply
CPU Cooler DeepCool GAMMAXX L360 A-RGB liquid CPU Cooler
Case Antec DF600 Flux Mid Tower Gaming Case
Case Fans Deepcool CF120 PLUS ARGB Case Fan
Deepcool DF120 ARGB Fan (Included with AIO)
COOLMOON 120mm RGB Computer Chassis Cooling Fan
Antec A-RGB High RPM Case Fan
Monitor Xiaomi Redmi G27 27-Inch 165Hz FHD IPS Gaming Monitor
Keyboard Tecware Spectre Pro RGB Hotswappable Mechanical Keyboard
Mouse ATTACK SHARK X1 Tri-mode Wireless Gaming Mouse With Charging Dock

About

My name is Arian Mollik Wasi, also known on the internet as Wasi Master. I'm an open-source software developer from Bangladesh who builds Python libraries, CLI applications, and developer tooling. I fell in love with computers ever since I used one, and I really like technology. I wrote my first line of code when I was 11 years old and started working on my first large project in April 2020. Although I have used a huge chunk of programming languages that exist today, I would say I am most proficient in Python and second most would be probably the Web Dev Trio of HTML, CSS, and JavaScript. As for photography, my father bought me a Canon PowerShot series camera in 2015 and I didn't really use it professionally then (nor do I now), it was just something that I had and used from time to time to take photos of whatever I wanted. In 2020 I bought a Canon EOS M50 and with the Viltrox speed-booster, I can use any EF-M and EF lens on it. I have since been taking photography more seriously and I do use this camera more often and take it to places more.

Wasi Master

Programmer & Photographer

Born 18 April 2007
Location Bangladesh
Languages English, Bengali, Hindi