I accept Donations
Throughout the years I have produced a lot of useful or entertaining content - open source code, humorous stories, essays, articles, material for presentations, web-sites, riddles and puzzles, and some computer graphics. I have made most of it available on my site and elsewhere, under free/open content licences.
Working on these works required a lot of time and still requires a lot of time for maintenance. While working on such endeavours gives me a lot of pleasure, I still would like to see some financial benefit. That’s why I decided to ask for donations using PayPal. So if what I created has benefited you in some way, please consider donating.
Note: I no longer desire gifts of physical, paper-ware books because I see them as "stuff" (also called "shmontses" or "pitchefkes" in Yiddish) which I do not want. If you wish, you can buy me DRM-free files in EPUB or PDF, or a different open format that I can use on desktop Linux machines without installing any binary blobs.
How will I spend the money? On:
Financing the physical infrastructure for my works.
Give it away to noble causes.
Save some of it in case I’ll need it.
Spend it on nice things for my friends, my family and me.
Since I was told that PayPal “donate” buttons were reserved for U.S. non-profits (and I’m still not sure whether this is the case) I removed the button from here. Just for reference, if you’d like to contribute or send money to me, you can use my PayPal ID - shlomif@shlomifish.org
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Bitcoin
I do not accept Bitcoin donations, because I value my (and the world and its computers') time and energy too much. They are much more valuable than money.
I have placed this section here after someone contacted me about accepting Bitcoin donations, in order to explain to future visitors why this is not going to happen.
Note that Bitcoin has pioneered some promising ideas such as blockchain and reproducible builds, so it wasn't all bad.