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Re: Ask HN: What projects do you donate to?

#71

The PHP Foundation, because while half the world was loudly throwing shade on the language, they were quietly making it good, stable and boring for the other half of the world to get work done :)

I also donate to Composer, PHPStan and PHPUnit. Those tools have been instrumental for the high quality of the PHP ecosystem.

Re: Ask HN: What projects do you donate to?

#75
I'm currently donating monthly (small amounts alas) to :

    - Hologram, an isomorphic web framework in Elixir by Bart Blast  
    - Torchlensmaker, differentiable optics with pyTorch by Victor Poughon
Both projects are to this day small and one-person but they have in common to be new takes at existing problems. Maybe those specific projects will not become the default, but I believe they will influence by showing alternative ways of doing things.

Re: Ask HN: What projects do you donate to?

#78
I give to Save the Children. It's been around since the early 20th century and started specifically to help the most vulnerable people, children, during times of war. Very inspiring story. Very reputable. Most of the money goes directly to the kids for things like food and school supplies.

Re: Ask HN: What projects do you donate to?

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post #15

- Libreoffice - Internet Archive - Wikipedia - Bandcamp - a bit off-topic but the music industry has become an exponentially distributed winner-takes-all game. I resist by buying underground music on Bandcamp - it's an exemplary web platform, gives generous cuts to the artist, and you own the files. Even if I only listen to the song a couple times it feels good knowing 80% of the money is going straight to talented a…

I will second what you say about Bandcamp which I've also been supporting for years. They also have Bandcamp Fridays, usually once a month, where 100% of the proceeds go to the artists (granted, there are a lot of labels on BC these days too, but still seems to be underground music in my experience).

A lot of those labels are really good and underground and fully worthy of support too imo. I think the smaller labels are really important to keep alive.
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