Become a sponsor to Joel Arvidsson
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I'm Joel, and I write a bunch of Open Source libraries primarily in the JavaScript/React/React Native/Swift UI realm. I don't do it for Twitter fame, money, career, status or even idealistic reasons – it's just because my happy place is solving problems, helping out, and sharing what I make with others. Despite sparse promotion, my libraries are fairly popular in terms of stars and downloads, and recently appeared on the ThoughtWorks Technology Radar.
The work I do is on weekends and late nights – sometimes I even take vacation/unpaid leave to materialize a bigger idea I have. This means that in order to keep my AFK relationships and mental sanity, my projects don't always get the attention they deserve. If I can sustain myself on sponsorships, I'll quit my job to focus on OSS and community work full time instead.
Some things I want to spend more time on are:
- Performance tooling (such as my Flipper plugin)
- Refactor RNVI to a multi package/mono repo to reduce bundle bloat, automatic linking and allow for custom community packages
- Visual management UI for Loki that can be integrated with CI
- Horizontal scalability for Loki to be able to run tests at full concurrency in lambdas/cloud functions
- Support issues
Important: I don't want Open Source to become transactional as I believe it's detrimental to the projects' long term health. So if you consider sponsoring me; do it because you think I do a good job in the community or have use for the libraries I create, not because you expect me to implement a particular feature.
Featured work
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oblador/react-native-vector-icons
Customizable Icons for React Native with support for image source and full styling.
JavaScript 17,377 -
oblador/react-native-animatable
Standard set of easy to use animations and declarative transitions for React Native
JavaScript 9,813 -
oblador/react-native-progress
Progress indicators and spinners for React Native
JavaScript 3,613 -
oblador/react-native-keychain
🔑 Keychain Access for React Native
Java 3,159 -
oblador/loki
👁 Visual Regression Testing for Storybook
JavaScript 1,762 -
oblador/hush
🤫 Noiseless Browsing – Content Blocker for Safari
JavaScript 3,223
$5 a month
SelectCore crew
ZOMG, you're the best – I'm really thankful!
$10 a month
SelectFermentation fam
I'll name one of my fermentation jars after you
$100 a month
SelectKey kin
You're 4eva eva tru OG oblador gang. Respek!
$250 a month
SelectSticker squad
I'll put your sticker on my computer and show it to my mom
$500 a month
SelectLogo league
Your company is now on my mental note of straight awesome companies. If you want I'll include your logo at a repo of your choosing.
$1,000 a month
SelectPart time
I'll be able to step down to part time
$5,000 a month
SelectQuitting time
I'll resign tomorrow