A coffee button, and a home for the projects

Two additions to the site this week, both aimed at you rather than at me. Neither is technically interesting. They are the kind of thing that sits on a list for months because nothing breaks without them, and then takes an afternoon once you finally sit down.

You can buy me a coffee now

There is a Donate link in the nav now, and a /donate page behind it. Two ways to send something:

Ko-fi, for a one-off or a monthly tip. One-off tips don't take a platform cut, which is most of why I picked it. And Interac e-Transfer, for the Canadians, since half the people I actually talk to about this stuff bank at the same handful of institutions I do and an e-Transfer is friction-free for them.

The Interac address sits behind a "reveal" button instead of a plain mailto: link. That is not me being precious about it. I read my own access logs, and I have watched how fast a bare email address in page source gets scraped. The button assembles the address in the browser from two halves, so it never sits in the HTML for a bot to grab on the way past. Small thing. It cost ten minutes and it will save me a spam filter.

I sat on this one for a while because donation buttons make me twitch a little. The writing here is free and it stays free, nothing is gated, and I am not short of work. But a few people asked, the open-source projects do cost me evenings, and "if this saved you an afternoon, a Timmies extra-large covers it" turns out to be a fair trade to offer rather than a thing to be squeamish about. So it is there. Use it or ignore it, both are completely fine.

The projects have a place to live

The other addition is a Projects section, also in the nav, at /projects. Until now the things I build were scattered: a repo on GitLab, a mention buried in some post, a line on a profile page I don't control. If you wanted to know what GlyphDeck actually is, or what state Notify is in, you had to already know where to look.

So each project now gets a proper entry. A writeup, the current status, the stack it's built on, and a link straight to the repo and the latest release. There's tag filtering across them for when there are enough to need it.

Here is the honest part: right now that page is nearly empty. What shipped this week is the scaffold, not the content. There is exactly one project entered, and I am holding even that one back because it has earned its own post and I am not going to bury the announcement inside a site-update note. The writeups for the established stuff (Notify, GlyphDeck, webget, the transcription tool) land over the next few weeks as I backfill them.

I built it as a page on a domain I own rather than leaning on a GitHub profile or a links-in-bio service on purpose. Those platforms are fine until the day they change the layout, or the pricing, or quietly decide your account looks like spam. The canonical description of the things I make should live somewhere I can still edit in ten years. This is that somewhere.

Both of these are live now. The coffee button if you're feeling generous, the projects page if you're curious what's coming.