#+TITLE: Tuesday, 09/22/2020
** 20:34 hitting 100k/year on github sponsors
wow! making more than he's making as a full tiem software developer!
left to go on a sabattical, started making his own thing
created Livewire for Laravel and AlpineJS for javascript
income was 20k for the first year to pursue the freelance work,
and his sponsorships lead to him making 25! and now he's making 100!

sponsorware:
- make software
- make it exclusive to sponsore until you reach # of sponsors
- release it once it reaches critical mass
  check out SponsorSyrup for this
educational content
- software for free, learn how to use the software for money!
- pay for technical support and additional tutorials
- releases free screencasts showing how to use the program,
  adding links to the documentation,
  and adding private screencasts reserved only for sponsors
- people watching the screencasts must be sponsors for a certain ammount


nuggets
- make good stuff! produce truly useful software.
- build an audience; collect subscribers and fans
- charge an impactful amount - make the first 'tier' a decent chunk of cash
- pick better tier names, tiers for the audience you want to shoot for
- don't be afraid to talk about sponsorships and money
** 20:48 on effective patches: linux
https://lkml.org/lkml/2004/12/20/255

making trivial cleanups? are they useful or good?

small patches are important because people realize that they *can* change the kernel!
on a practical level, they can tag a change on the kernel and say that they accomplished it

it's not possible to get into the kernel without starting out small and making mistakes

even trivial patches really do take time, as they often have trivial mistakes!
they take a lot of time proportional to effort in the contribution, but it's so
important for people to learn how to contribute to projects! don't stop making patches,
even if those patches aren't the best. they're a good way to learn.
** 20:54 goodbye serenity
https://www.nybooks.com/daily/2011/12/05/goodbye-serenity/
god i love this article
claim of finding serenity by no longer reading the papers and watching television. sadomasichism
the revolutionaries and political exiles are long dead
we torment ourselves with the internet

our political system is wholly incapable of solving any of our countries real problems
** 20:58 a lesson in acceptance
https://www.oxfordamerican.org/magazine/item/1945-lesson-in-acceptance
god i love how this flows!

balance your infections
being a restaurants regular is a beautiful thing
- defines a 'regular'
- what does it mean to frequent the restaurant? what does it mean ot enjoy it?
- it is a gift to shut up and exist in a country that screams at everything

eating out is an excercise in acceptance; they are letting you into their home
deserts are hardly equal
restaurants are where life is lived
if we sacrifice them, we sacrifice live as we know them; we sacrifice the
humanity in a city

return to restaurants only in memory until the day i die
** 21:24 tf2 drugs
experimen
t
with everything
https://www.teamfortress.tv/18898/psychedelic-experiences#12
** 21:27 today
what did i learn today?
- how to use react hooks
- about the sudanese pyramids
- how valuable it is to adhere to structure
- that i am so addicted to the wrong kinds of technology
  and need to really limit myself
- i save too many links,
  and i need to curb the flow of infomration in
  i have known this for awhile,
  but this goes with the aforemwntioned internet addiction