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Omar's thinking about interfaces is consistently striking and unusual, in the best possible way. I'm delighted to have a chance to support a kindred weirdo independent researcher!

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Omar Rizwan

@rsnous

· Jan 11, 2021

I've been pretty blown away by the response to TabFS. I'm starting a GitHub Sponsors as an experiment to support further development on it; I want to turn it into something you can really use! would love to have your help: github.com/sponsors/osnr

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Andy Matuschak

@andy_matuschak

Jan 11, 2021

Interesting to see the tensions implied by a funder drive like this one. It's centered around a specific project, and focus/utility surely brings in extra donors… but that emphasizes maintenance and roadmaps ("funding a project") over open-ended research ("funding a person").

Andy Matuschak

@andy_matuschak

FWIW, Omar, if you had a research-centric funding thing up ("fund me to keep working on and writing about my weird ideas"), I'd be a happy sponsor! I'm not a heavy tab user, so TabFS isn't the draw for me—just the ideas. 🔮❤️

9:33 PM · Jan 11, 2021Twitter Web App

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Boy, the UX for sponsoring someone on GitHub is so well polished. Nice work

@devonzuegel

& co! Makes me envious as a Patreon user.

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Oooo, I’d love open ended funding to explore ideas, that’d be awesome. (Also, the best way for me to invent ideas B,C,D,E,F is to force me to work on idea A.)

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it's interesting because I would say most of the motivation for this on my end _was_ actually the specific project, not that I necessarily wanted general funding (although that would be useful too, so I will definitely take this under consideration!)

Omar Rizwan

@rsnous

Jan 11, 2021

-- that is, issues and pull requests keep coming in, and I was like, I need this to fit into some kind of larger picture, otherwise there's no point in continuing to maintain it

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