Who wants to be sponsored? (February 2021)

Question

HN has had several stories lately about enabling developer sponsorships. This thread will help sponsors and developers find each other here.Sponsors, please lead with SPONSORING, then the type of work you're looking to sponsor, preferred sponsorship services (GitHub Sponsors, Patreon, Substack, direct, etc), and your contact information. This is not limited to corporate sponsors; if you're an individual and you sponsor individuals, go ahead and post.Developers, please lead with SEEKING SPONSOR, then the type of work you do that merits sponsorship (2-3 sentences), what you offer sponsors, and your sponsorship link. Please also put your sponsorship link in your HN profile.(Posted with permission of HN mods, as an experiment.)

minimaxir · Accepted Answer

SEEKING SPONSOR: I have been developing open source tooling for ML/AI and data visualization (with many projects in the pipeline!), along with writing blogs to help make use of them. I intend to open source everything I make, without charging for access. As a result, I need sponsors to help subsidize the costs of both R&D and DevOps for making these tools more accessible.https://www.patreon.com/minimaxir

m-ou-se · Answer

SEEKING SPONSOR: I work on the Rust standard library and compiler. As of a few months ago, I'm part of the Rust library team, which is the team that manages everything in and around the standard library. I'm currently working on the panicking infrastructure, improving the synchronization/locking primitives*, and on a new (more efficient) implementation of how formatting arguments are represented**. I also spend a lot of time reviewing incoming pull requests for the standard library, and am working on streamlining the organization around all this.
https://github.com/sponsors/m-ou-se/
*: Much of which has already landed: On Windows, mutexes etc. are no longer heap-allocated. And on many platforms, thread parking now directly uses futex(-like) syscalls/APIs.
**: That is, how a format_args!() is represented at runtime, which is relevant for all println!(), format!(), etc. macros that do any formatting.

JoshTriplett · Answer

SEEKING SPONSOR: I work on and in Rust; I lead the Rust language team and work on the Cargo project. I'm currently writing the build system I've wanted for 16 years: no change to your workflow, cooperates with existing build systems, handles multi-stage builds, works with any language, and the first version will support offloading builds to fast cloud systems to compile 12-120x faster than a developer laptop. I'm seeking sponsors to continue working on Rust and build systems full-time.https://github.com/sponsors/joshtriplett/

DianaNites · Answer

SEEKING SPONSOR: I work with Rust, I'm currently writing a GPT partition manager as an alternative to the likes of parted, and other alternatives to lower level tools, such as modprobe. I'm seeking sponsors to continue working on making new and modern versions of tools like that with Rust, and more, all open source.
https://github.com/sponsors/DianaNites
disclaimer: I havent touched most of my projects for awhile, burnout.