Maintaining widely used open-source software over many years is hard, unglamorous work. So is producing and updating high-quality content like blog posts, YouTube videos, or conference talks. ✨You✨ can help to ameliorate that!

Nothing of what I do, I do with money in mind – I genuinely want to help everyone, everywhere. That’s why I don’t hide content or features behind paywalls. But it is hard, thankless work and sometimes it is difficult to come up with motivation to spend my free time on it, when I could spend the time consulting to make money or play video games to have fun.

I do not run any ads on my sites and I’m not looking for ad partnerships for my videos. I want to work for the community, supported by the community. It’s up to the community to decide if they want it, too.

Therefore, if you like my work and would like me to produce more free software and more free content that benefit everyone, please chip in:

  • GitHub Sponsors is the best way to support my FOSS work with regular donations or one-time tips. GitHub is currently kind enough to eat the credit card fees for me so I genuinely get what you give.

    Corporate sponsors are possible and the $50 tiers even get sponsors banners on my projects. Please check out the GitHub Sponsors page for details or the attrs homepage how it looks like!

  • My Amazon wishlist.

  • If you use one of my projects within your company, some of my projects are available on Tidelift. Most of my projects aren’t monetized, though. So if you get a subscription, I will benefit, too.

  • You can also support me indirectly if you speak German 🇩🇪 by getting your domains and web hosting from my employer Variomedia. Without their support my community output would be considerably smaller.

Referrals

Here’s a few possibilities to support me without giving anything away. Please note that I don’t participate in any commercial affiliate program. These are services I use and pay for myself and I only get varying kinds of discounts on my own bill if you use my link – no monetary kickbacks.

Tech

  • My email lives at Fastmail. With my referrer code you get 10% off.

  • I use Buttondown for my newsletter. If you use my link to create your own, you get $9 off your first month.

  • I hope you noticed that my web page is very fast from everywhere. That’s because I use Bunny CDN. If you use my referral link to speed up your web page, I get $20 credit which helps me to offset my hosting costs.

  • I like Setapp as a way to rein in my subscription spendings. If you use my link, we’ll both get a month for free.

Lifestyle

  • Most carbon offset programs are somewhere between fraud and useless. I have come to trust Wren and if you want to join me, here’s my referrer link that makes the first month free for you.

  • If you’re athletic in any way, you’ve probably heard of Whoop. Get a month free by using my link.

  • I’m barely keeping my sanity with the Waking Up meditation app. My link gives you 30 days of free access, no credit card required.

  • My travel SIMs of choice are (depending on the destination):

    • Airalo: If you use my link or my referral code HYNEK9125, we both get $3 credit each.
    • Keepgo: If you use my link, we’ll both get 3 GB for free.

Not found your favorite way above?

If you’d like to sponsor me in any other way, please let me know!

Thank you!