Just published: Erase your darlings: immutable infrastructure for mutable systems.
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I do also open source and get some donations and I couldn’t agree more. When money start flowing in, although a very little amount, the pressure also gets very high and the responsibility of “I should do it for my donators, that believe in me”. Expectations are set now. Damn.
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Dang I’m right back in 2006, editing files over ftp with my colleagues also changing the same code at the same time. twitter.com/riccardogiorat
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There is a branch of behavioral economics with tons of research on this. Things like moving to a finiancal penalty for picking up kids late at daycare actually increases late pickups. The penalty moves from social to economic.
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I suspect asking this question hints at it being, indeed, a bad idea.
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Has anyone had a Terraform project with hundreds of workspaces?
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me: time for your nap.
toddler: <unconvinced>
me: <turns on TNG>
toddler: ?
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me, naive: I think I'll play with ___
toddler, wise: unlikely
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While I appreciate the point that Graham is making here, I'm very different: I'm happy to take $5/month sponsors because it tells me that people out there care enough to sponsor my work, even if they can't afford to give me much cash.
Heck, $0 "thank you" emails are also great!
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For me personally I don’t want to get paid for my OSS work unless I’m *really* getting paid for it. I want my time volunteer or properly compensated. If I’m getting ~$5/h it is, to me, worse than nothing.
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Sometimes "I'm not paid to do this" is a different way of saying "you're not the boss of me."
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a pay rate that would be less than minimum wage, is kind of bad.
And that you're only being offered that as a company has realised how reliant they are on that software, so they're only offering it now sustainable OSS has become a critical problem for them...is also not great.
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*Checks notes* That's why I chose to ignore GitHub Sponsors, despite the surge in popularity.
It would only make sense by setting 500£ or 1000£/month as the first tier, which rules out 99.9% of platform users.
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I need to write about that feeling.
When I had deliberately not gotten around to doing the work to update Imagick to support PHP 8, someone stepped up and offered to do a one time donation of a few hundred dollars.
It's hard to explain to someone that being offered
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Yep. There's the "doing something for free" bucket, with the lack of obligation that comes with that, and the "doing for money" bucket which connotes obligations. Super underpaid in between is problematic, and likely takes money that would be better spent elsewhere.
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For me personally I don’t want to get paid for my OSS work unless I’m *really* getting paid for it. I want my time volunteer or properly compensated. If I’m getting ~$5/h it is, to me, worse than nothing.
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Right, I guess my point is to not see it as financial. If someone buys me a small gift, I don’t think of the relationship as financial. I do hear what you’re saying and agree. There’s a wide no man’s land of unsustainable funding.
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For me personally I don’t want to get paid for my OSS work unless I’m *really* getting paid for it. I want my time volunteer or properly compensated. If I’m getting ~$5/h it is, to me, worse than nothing.
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