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I love your work! How do you find the time to work on readbean/ape/etc? I sponsor you on github, but surely donations pale in comparison to what you could earn at an engineering day job.

Do you plan on writing your own tcp/ip stack with cosmopolitan? Why not pull in the networking stack and syscall libraries from MirageOS?

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It's not so much could but have. I used to work at Google Brain. I decided I'd rather be doing this instead. I make it work by living modestly, eating ramen, and avoiding doctors. Thank you for sponsoring me! It helps a lot.

I have really enjoyed your submissions in the past year. Just sponsored you on Github. I feel like your work is of sufficient excellence and utility that you shouldn't need to eat unhealthy food to get by. Have you considered applying for grants from the non-profit arms of big tech companies? I do think that if you can combine Python in redbean in a seamless way, it would really drive adoption and lead to more sponsors for your work. Anyway, thanks for many hours of entertainment watching blinking lights.

I'll certainly consider it. Are there any in particular you'd recommend?

Something different entirely, but look at https://www.mercatus.org/emergent-ventures

I don't know much about the subject, but some quick searching leads me to believe that the first step is to create a legal non-profit entity, since that looks to be a requirement for all these big companies to dispense grant money. I think it costs a fair amount of money in fees and legal help to make a 501c3, so maybe you can do a Gofundme to raise the money for that (or ask for help from lawyers). Once you have the entity set up with you and people you trust in control, you can write a basic grant proposal, which wouldn't look that different from the articles you've already written explaining the project and the benefits. Then you can customize this with an addendum that responds to specific questions for each grant request application. And then send it to any organizations you can find that seem like good fits. I'm not a lawyer (and this isn't legal advice), but if you can get enough funding, perhaps you can "hire yourself" as the first contractor to the organization (I don't know if this runs afoul of the rules). I guess it's a lot of work if you've never done it before. Your best bet would be to find someone who has done this a bunch of times (maybe someone associated with the Internet Archive or something) who can help put it together for you.

Well that might put grants off the table. I'm not starting an NGO. There are better ways for corporations to support our work.

I’ve been part of over 5 501(c)3 and 501(c)6 startups and unless something drastic has changed in the last few years since COVID, it is not that expensive (well under 1k). Consult with someone who does nonprofit creation and they will let you know what 501(c)X that the effort would best be described as and absolutely shouldn’t break the bank.

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