I created the toqito software project back in early 2020 as a pet project for delving into some research questions I wanted to pursue in quantum information but felt were lacking in the Python community. When I was a Ph.D. student, having software like toqito would have been indispensible for rapidly prototyping ideas and attacking problems numerically. I’ve been continuing to build my quantum information numerical arsenal that has been a real feather in my cap when probing into particularly thorny research questions and it’s also been a ton of fun to build and to watch grow.