Not financial advice

Yesterday, a close friend of mine, hurt my feelings by insulting a project of mine. So now, I am using this to become a better person. This is not an Isekai title, it’s a TL;DR of what lead to this post.

This lead to me to a financially unwise decision that (thanks to the tism) I will not go back on: I will be handing out money to those that don’t ask, but give anyway. I don’t have any illusions of creating a trend here, though by all means feel free to copy me, I am doing it in the hope of keeping the FLOSS-community alive and well, in the big and the small things.

Anyway. Here is a list of where this year’s donations went¹². I plan on publishing this each year going forth, and I would like to especially thank my army of 1 GitHub Sponsors for letting me feel the warm fuzzies myself that I can hopefully now pass on to some more.

• BeryJu for his work on authentik
• qbit for maintaining not only OpenBSD software, but also an environment for young Gophers to ask questions
• diamondburned for the many times this year, she has unstuck my brain
• fyne for making a native UI toolkit for Go
• gio for that as well
• syncthing for… well… syncthing
• lukevella for Rally
• offen web analytics for doing it the right way
• ku1ik for asciinema
• mumble for the cooler TeamSpeak
• curl

Who I didn’t sponsor³:

• rjarry for his great work at maintaining aerc
• rockorager for all his work
• mpv for their awesome media player
• skraus-dev for making my keyboard colourful
• emersion for his awesome work with Wayland and his great libraries
• ddevault for his blog and ideas (mate, your fosspay is down)
• my GitHub sponsor. Since they opted to remain anonymous. Still, thank you for inspiring me to do this.

Merry Christmas or whatever you are celebrating.