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Caleb Maclennan

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İzmir, Türkiye

I write tools with the goal of automating the process of publishing books and other resources, improving the quality of digital and print typesetting, simplifying the workflow for text editors, easing the localization of software into more languages, etc. And of course along the way I try to contribute the results of many yak-shaving sessions to upstream projects so others don't have to go down the same rabbit trails.

To date I've mostly written or fixed software that I specifically needed to complete my own projects and scratch my own itches. Along the way I've tried to contribute as much as possible back to the open source software ecosystem that enabled me to tackle those projects in the first place. While the projects I work on are important for their own reasons, in same cases the software they inspired is useful to others on a larger scale than it was to me!

Any sponsorships on this platform will enable me to invest even more time into these contributions.

Current sponsors 2

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Past sponsors 7
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Featured work

  1. sile-typesetter/casile

    The CaSILE toolkit, a book publishing workflow employing SILE and other wizardry.

    Lua 54
  2. sile-typesetter/sile

    The SILE Typesetter — Simon’s Improved Layout Engine

  3. alerque/fluent-lua

    Lua implementation of Project Fluent https://projectfluent.org

    Lua 21
  4. simonmichael/hledger

    Robust, fast, intuitive plain text accounting tool with CLI, TUI and web interfaces.

    Haskell 3,073
  5. preservim/nerdcommenter

    Vim plugin for intensely nerdy commenting powers

    Vim Script 4,995
  6. ledger/vim-ledger

    Vim plugin for Ledger

    Vim Script 374

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Five drops in a bucket is five more than none. A fiver once a month will spot me both a lunch plus a pot of coffee where I live thus fueling those hacking sessions just a tiny bit more.

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Some code I wrote makes your computing experience better. You may not have a huge budget, but tens do start adding up when enough people contribute and this is a solid way to say thanks.

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All your bug reports get special attention. I'm just kidding of course — or maybe not. I have to wonder, even if I tried to be completely unbiased I have to imagine any level of sponsorship will in fact motivate me to prioritize writing code that addresses your problems instead of just my own.

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Roll on 18 wheeler roll on. If my work seriously helps you get your job done, this keeps the supply chain deliveries on the road.

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Convince my wife that open source software makes the world better. Of course family is more important than code, but when code both helps others and puts bread on the table & diapers on the baby it starts to take on a life of its own.

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Adopt a project. Never mind just your specific bug reports and feature requests, this will drive forward all work on the specific project you are interested in.

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I dot your i's and cross your t's. If your offset press runs around the clock on my software, this will convince me to work a few night shifts if that's what it takes to keep your machinery extra well oiled and the pages well inked.

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Industrial grade sponsorship. One has to wonder why I'm not just on your payroll.

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Single-handedly shoulder all of my family's living expenses! This option is not here because I expect any contribution I make to be worth this much to anybody, but because it is the maximum that Github sponsors will fund-match this year. Five grand would be ⓐ entirely sufficient to make me fall out of my chair in shock and ⓑ sufficient to cover my entire family's food, lodging, utility, insurance, and other living expenses. In other words, this sponsors an entire life of activities, not just a few side projects.

In fact during the fund matching period there would be a surplus. This would be put into investments for future use, not to upgrade our standard of living into lavish territory.