Gregory's Server@jacob @offby1 tbh I don’t donate myself either to most projects because I do very little tech stuff myself outside of work that uses open source and honestly just don’t have the mental capacity for much after work (spent on other non-tech community mostly). I have tried to push my employer to pay projects (sponsorships or the commercial license or whatever) that we’ve used. this has worked exactly once. 😭
@jacob @offby1 It feels awful honestly hunting through npm or pypi or rubygems to find the right package to use for something knowing how it’s maintained (that is, not supported robustly) but also if you’re trying to ship X feature you usually can’t justify re-implementing things and probably won’t be able to convince the boss to pay for it (even when the maintainer has a way to given all the reasons it’s risky to try to even ask.)