Howdy. My name is Austin, and I'm a FOSS developer in the southern United States. I've worn a lot of hats, and in previous lives I did things like maintain the Glasgow Haskell Compiler, write software exploits, and work on filesystems. These days, I spend time working on version control; I also still work on the NixOS Linux distribution and Nixpkgs package set, where you'll see many of my recent FOSS contributions.
Occasionally I publish other useful utilities or middleware. These include things like Eris, minibsdiff, or libfault.
You can use this chance to give me some money.
What this gets you
Every sponsor gets:
- A feeling of solidarity and support! That rocks.
- Email access. Got a simple Haskell or Nix question? Just want to say thanks? I'll add you to a priority email list of mine (but can't guarantee super timely responses).
- Irregular email updates, maybe. I might send occasional fun updates about (new) projects or things I'm thinking about.
But remember that, no matter what: you're incredibly good looking and also my friend.
What it does not get you
These tiers explicitly do not provide any guaranteed form of support, labor, timely response, and do not constituent any notion of (but not limited to) "employment" UNLESS OTHERWISE NOTED. Specifics of actual directed work will be negotiated on a donor-by-donor basis. Again, unless otherwise noted, donating money in the lower tiers WILL NOT influence or change any positions on matters relating to Free Software development. No preferential treatment, expedited reviews, nada, zilch, nothing.
Gives me warm fuzzies, and I'll sponsor others in turn.
Current sponsors 1
Featured work
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NixOS/nixpkgs
Nix Packages collection & NixOS
Nix 18,268 -
well-typed/cborg
Binary serialisation in the CBOR format
Haskell 191 -
thoughtpolice/eris
Serve your /nix/store directory over the internet ✨
Perl 86 -
thoughtpolice/minibsdiff
A miniature, portable version of bsdiff.
C 125 -
thoughtpolice/cryptol-mode
A Cryptol major mode for Emacs.
Emacs Lisp 16
20% towards 5 monthly sponsors goal
teh sponsors this goal
$1 a month
Select💥 Friendly assist - You just want to pitch in. Thanks!
$5 a month
Select☕️ Coffee addict - You will buy my morning coffee every once in a while, which will please me greatly. Occasionally, I will buy a bag of coffee and use that for a few days. I always tip well when I buy coffee because everyone at the local place is really nice, that's on me. I'm legally required by the courts to spend all this money on coffee so if too many people subscribe then I might die.
$2,000 a month
Select❄️ Long term Nix work & support - Using Nix in your project, but need something? In Nix? NixOS? The whole ecosystem? I can do it... for a load of money.
- You MUST contact me first so that I can negotiate specifics with you. Unless you want to just throw money away. Otherwise I can't guarantee availability or timeliness.
- This is for serious, large-scale work in the free, open source Nix ecosystem ONLY. While it is Nix-specific, the scope is effectively "whatever you want"
- Funds from this tier will be redistributed to The NixOS Foundation (80%/20%)
$8,000 a month
Select🔫 Hired gun - I'll work on any FOSS project you need help for, to whatever extent you (reasonably) desire. Previous restrictions (right to refuse, scope, timing, support) apply. This isn't a commitment to a 40 hour work week, but to an agreed upon long-term dev schedule.
Note: If you need Nix work done, use the previous tier; this tier is priced for arbitrary projects since it splits my attention further.
Funds from this tier will also be redistributed to charitable foundations of my choosing (80%/20% split at minimum.)