Become a sponsor to nick black
How's it going, hackers? Nick Black out of the ATL. I focus on low-level applications and libraries, primarily on Linux but also targeting other UNIX platforms.
I sent out my first patch in 2001, removing some unnecessary (void*)
casts from GLIBC string routines. It was promptly refused by Ulrich Drepper, which will surprise no one who hacked GLIBC in that era. The first contribution I recall having accepted was a fix to IPv4 dissection in Wireshark, back when it was Ethereal. Since then, I've had patches accepted into over fifty major projects, including the Linux kernel. For a time, I comaintained x86info and the NGPT Linux patches.
My own projects are all open source, including:
- growlight, an advanced disk manager
- omphalos, a fullscreen network recon/attack tool
- libtorque, threaded continuations-based I/O for manycore NUMA
...and many others.
In 2012 and 2013 I oversaw the SprezzOS project, a Debian derivative that explored rolling release, autoupdates of packages, UEFI and GPT-capable system installation, tight ZFS integration, distribution-wide use of LLVM, and other technology that has since become standard. I was also the #1 committer by commit count on Github for much of that time :).
In 2019, I went freelance as Dirty South Supercomputing, where I consult and try to work on as much open source as I can. Clients receive steep discounts if the work I do for them can be submitted back upstream or released as open projects.
Your contributions will allow me to focus on improving the performance, robustness, and beauty of core Linux technologies. In particular, I'd like to do a Compiz-like OpenGL Wayland compositor. See my Charn and CharnGL projects:
In addition, I'd like to expand growlight's functionality, and add stresstest/recovery capabilities.
profound changes are imminent in the ancient craft of the beautiful
Featured work
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dankamongmen/libtorque
A threaded, continuations-based I/O event library for manycore NUMA machines
C 70 -
dankamongmen/omphalos
A tool for network enumeration and domination.
C 47 -
dankamongmen/notcurses
blingful character graphics/TUI library. definitely not curses.
C 3,477 -
dankamongmen/growlight
notcurses block device manager / system installation tool
C 85 -
dankamongmen/raptorial
Rewrite of APT with emphasis on disk+core parallelism
C 11 -
dankamongmen/unix-weapons-school
slides and materials for CS4803UWS at Georgia Tech, summer 2013, "UNIX Weapons School"
Assembly 18
$10 a month
SelectGet the warm fuzzy feeling that comes from supporting low-level UNIX development all year long for the cost of two months of cable. Receive my monthly mail detailing my open source work, plans, and thoughts.
$20 a month
SelectFuzzy feelings, monthly mail, and your name in the footer of said mail for the duration of your sponsorship.
$50 a month
SelectFuzzy feelings, monthly mail, your name in the footer of said mail, your name in the THANKS of a project of your choice (for perpetuity), and a qemfd.net forwarding address of your choice (subject to approval, for perpetuity).
$100 a month
SelectEverything above, and a very limited edition Dirty South Supercomputers and Waffles hoodie, either our classic "hack on" or our disarmingly forthright "fuck clock skew especially".
$500 a month
SelectEverything above, and your name THANKed in the sitewide footer of my personal wiki at https://nick-black.com for the duration of your sponsorship.
$1,000 a month
SelectEverything above, and a message of your choice (subject to my approval) in the sitewide footer of my personal wiki at https://nick-black.com for the duration of your sponsorship.
$4,000 a month
SelectFor one week per month of your sponsorship's duration, I'll work on whatever open source you want, per your direction. Essentially, you're contracting me at 66.6% of my usual rate of $6000/week, with the requirement that the work be open source.