Become a sponsor to Wez Furlong
Hi! I'm Wez and I've been working on Open Source projects since the late '90s. I've worked on quite a range of things from PHP's internals and extension ecosystem, through to automated debuggers, messaging systems, created the watchman filesystem monitoring service and the EdenFS source control aware fuse filesystem.
My current spare time hobby hacking is in a couple of areas:
- WezTerm - a feature-rich cross platform terminal emulator
- Custom mechanical keyboards such as my Half Deck keyboard. I contributed support for BLE to the QMK firmware as part of this journey, and bootstrapped Rust support for ATSAMD micro-controllers, and brought together the nRF Rust folks along the way.
Your contribution will help me in a couple of ways:
- Your support will enable me to continue building and maintaining WezTerm. It can be challenging to support across all the different operating systems and environments. There are thousands of users, and even though there have been a few contributors, it's really just carried by me in my spare time.
- I'd like to be able to code-sign the macOS and Windows builds of WezTerm. This requires non-trivial recurring fees to maintain the developer identity that I can't justify as an out of pocket expense.
- On the keyboard/hardware side, having more resources for more advanced/powerful maker gear and/or more frequently being able to order up some PCBs for a new idea helps to iterate and innovate more quickly.
WezTerm is big enough now that I cannot keep up with the backlog of issues; it's turned into real work. I was part of the mass of tech layoffs in November 2022, which, while it has taken away my income, has presented an opportunity to consider making wezterm an official part of my income stream. For that to work it needs to sustainably cover a significant portion of my outgoings; I have a mortgage and family of dependents to feed and cover their health insurance. At the time of writing the average monthly amount per wezterm sponsor is $5/month. If we can grow to 1000 sponsors with that same average then we're looking at a respectable start. Thanks!
Featured work
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wez/wezterm
A GPU-accelerated cross-platform terminal emulator and multiplexer written by @wez and implemented in Rust
Rust 16,543
$1 a month
SelectππΌ Thanks for being a fan!
$5 a month
SelectππΌ I appreciate your support!
$10 a month
Selectπ₯ Having a few sponsors at this level could sustain the cost of code signing certificates... or just let me treat myself to some really nice scotch every so often!
$20 a month
Selectwezterm is your workhorse. You use it for your full working day, every day, maybe even on weekends, and it helps you crush your goals.
$100 a month
SelectYou're a company with 10 people that use wezterm and you'd like to show your support
$500 a month
SelectYou're a company and many (most?) of you are really super enthusiastic about wezterm!