My value-for-value proposition

🖥 USD $5

☃️ USD $25

🍞 USD $916

You can also choose your own donation amount and currency at Paypal. Every once in a while I send thank-you emails to Paypal donors.

Why not simply send a postcard? I rarely receive snail-mail in this digital age, and it would make my day.

Joel Purra
Wrangelstr. 55
DE-10997 Berlin
Germany

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Bitcoin (BTC) is magic internet money, and the best option for international donations.

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The currency Bitcoin is sometimes abbreviated BTC, XBT, or just ₿.

All Bitcoin donations can be seen in the public (but pseudonymous) blockchain ledger, for example via mempool.space alternatively via mempool⋯.onion.

Direct transfers to my bank account are possible internationally. This is particularly suitable for donations in Swedish Kronor (SEK) or Euro (EUR), since transactions within the European Union (EU) are fast and without fees.

Each and every one can help out in free/libre open source software and digital rights organizations. It doesn't have to take much effort — start your journey based on your own abilities, wants, and needs.

• Help someone install and use open source software.
• Tell a few friends about open source code.
• Share a few links to open source projects and websites.
• Improve project translations in your native tongue.
• Write a bug report.
• Patch a bug and send a pull request.
• Join an open source software workshop or meetup.
• Attend a digital rights workshop or meetup.
• Become a member of a digital rights organization.
• Mention to your boss that many open source developers are happy to write code as contractors.

My own open source software is built with the help of many, many other open source projects — thousands when including subdependencies. Akin to standing on the shoulders of giants, I owe my career to the open source and digital rights communities.

Below are some projects, organizations, and individuals, which I consider worthy of promoting. If you would like to explore something interesting, and perhaps extend your support, these would be some of my recommendations.

Snowflake

Circumvent internet censorship when connecting to The Tor Network. Those living in relatively uncensored countries can run/self-host a proxy to help those affected by censorship.

Source code, Website, Wikipedia

Refined Github

Browser extension that improves and streamlines the Github website interface. Adds features and fixes to the Github experience at a rate faster than the team employed at Github. Implements 200+ features, plus another 80+ which have since been adopted by Github.

Source code

Single Player Tarkov (SPT)

An open source game server reimplementation for the first person shooter (FPS) game (closed-source) Escape from Tarkov (EFT). Players are stuck in post-war Russia, where they have to construct a shelter and gather provisions to survive. Expands EFT's builtin, offline, single-player mode to mimic parts of the highly competitive, online, multiplayer experience. Enables tweaking inventory, player stats, maps, loot, enemies, etcetera. Allows loading modifications, and can emulate some of the live experience such as fluctuating market prices.

Source code, Website

Stardew Checkup

A tool to analyze save files from the Stardew Valley game. Displays milestones, relationships, farm evaluation, achievement progress, etcetera. Can be configured to not reveal spoilers.

Source code, Website

Spell Checker Oriented Word Lists (SCOWL)

SCOWL is a database of English words, used to create word lists for spell checkers etcetera.

Source code, Website

These entries are a randomized subset, refreshed periodically. You may recognize some popular projects already; I have tried to also include lesser-known projects and individual efforts, where some extra exposure and support may make a bigger difference.

See also my list of starred repositories on Github for a much broader, mixed list of both useful and interesting projects.