The lab
Firewalls, hypervisors, storage and a GPU or two. You cannot write honestly about a thing you have only read about — every write-up on this site started with breaking something real, usually more than once.
If you want to, and only if you want to
Keeping the lights on
Everything I publish is free, and it stays free. The plugins, the tools, the write-ups — none of it is behind anything, and none of it ever will be.
What is not free is finding out. The testing, the breaking, the rebuilding, and a rack that has to be running for any of it to mean anything. That part comes out of my pocket, which is fine — it is how I have always learned. But if something here saved you an afternoon, this is where you can put a bit back.
What it actually pays for
Electricity
The unglamorous one, and the one that actually adds up. Servers that stay on so the testing is real rather than theoretical.
Game servers
I host game servers for friends I have picked up over decades of gaming and being online. They are free to play on and will stay that way — but they are not free to run.
Things to try
Licences, hardware to test against, and whatever has just appeared and is worth an evening. Running models locally, mostly, at the moment.
Time
Listed last and deliberately not priced. The code is a gift; the hosting bill is arithmetic.
Ways to help
One-off or monthly
Buy an evening’s electricity
A few pounds, once, or a small standing amount if something here is part of your week. Nothing to cancel either way.
Ko-fi →One-off
Straight through PayPal
The same thing without signing up for anything new. Card or PayPal balance, and you are back here in thirty seconds.
PayPal →Costs nothing
Tell me it worked
Genuinely. A note saying a plugin solved something, or a bug report with enough detail to reproduce, is worth more than the money and takes two minutes.
Send me a note →The bit most of these pages leave out
Nothing changes if you do not. There is no tier, no supporter badge, no early access and nothing held back. Anyone who donates gets exactly what anyone who does not gets, which is all of it.
I would rather you used the thing, found it useful, and told someone else. If you are a student, between jobs, or it is simply a tight month — close this page without a second thought. It will still all be here.
And if you are a business getting real value out of one of these plugins, you are the one I would gently point at the monthly option on Ko-fi. You know who you are.