fastily

I have quite a few, my personal collection of shell scripts: https://github.com/fastily/autobots

I also curate a shell command cheatsheet: https://github.com/fastily/cheatsheet

This seems (to me at least) like it would be an unpopular move. However, I wonder if this is one of those situations where HN is an opinionated echo chamber, and where the average person would be totally okay with this

A lot of community run websites are like this. On Wikipedia, ~200 volunteers do 80% of the admin/moderation work. And yes, it’s totally unsustainable.

I’ve been an editor on Wikipedia for nearly 15 years. I reckon I’ve easily contributed tens of thousands of dollars worth of value during this time. To be clear, I don’t expect/want any compensation (I firmly believe in the free knowledge for all mission), but I’d be lying if I said it doesn’t sting to see others profit handsomely off of my hard work.

ah, that's unfortunate. I've been using this to host toy projects that don't (and probably never will) bring in any income. Does anyone know of a similar service with a free tier?

It doesn't have to be expensive or complicated. I've written a simple web app that wraps Twilio's fax capabilities.

https://github.com/fastily/fax-machine

The whole thing is designed to run on a raspberry pi. The setup costs $1 a month (for the twilio number) and a couple cents per page.

This really deserves more attention. As an oss contributor myself, I’ve noticed that almost no one actually reviews your source code, often choosing to blindly trust libraries simply because they’re available via the language’s package manager.

Would you rather live at the bottom of the ocean?

Not on this planet no, but the universe is a huge place. Space is the obvious next frontier.

Now try it with a cat who sheds a lot, has mild dandruff, and likes to sit on your lap while you work

I do this pretty frequently, and I've written quite a few bash scripts to rebuild my preferred environments for my Mac, Ubuntu boxes, raspberry pis, etc.

It's open source too: https://github.com/fastily/autobots