I’m not an open source guy - redistribution restrictions (as well as restrictions for corporate and commercial use) are non negotiable for me. You’re welcome to learn from the source code, and anyone is free to fork and make whatever changes they want for personal use.

The license history for this project goes MIT > PolyForm Strict > Forked PolyForm Strict to explicitly allow changes for personal use (named as the “Komorebi” license as changing the text of PolyForm licenses requires removal of the PolyForm trademark).

If anyone is interested in the story behind the initial MIT > PolyForm Strict switch, the tl;dr is that I decided to explicitly restrict redistribution after someone did a rename of the project and started selling it on the Windows Store. A lot has happened since then that has changed my views on open source in general.

non-standard

OSI licenses are not “standard” by any stretch of the imagination, and I personally don’t want to have anything to do with licenses which would permit the use of my software in the mass murder of children.

Thanks! Turns out I have a lot more time on my hands to be found around the internet since I got laid off last month 😅

This looks cool! It’s not packaged on nixpkgs yet so I might package it and then try to selfhost 👀

I wish I had more advice, but I’m in a similar boat, just got laid off earlier this month after being with the same company from Series A in 2018 all the way until today. I’m sending job applications and trying to get interviews, but it’s hard to get past the resume screening stage, even with 8+ years of experience.

I’ve mainly been working in DevOps/SRE/Platform Infrastructure, but I am also an accomplished developer with a pretty thick portfolio of widely used open source projects, though it doesn’t seem to matter.

There are so many applicants for every single job now that it feels hopeless, and of course every single opening wants you to waste your time on multiple asinine LeetCode gotcha questions.

If I lived somewhere with a public health system I’d love to take what money I have saved up and open a traditional middle eastern bakery, but I need to do something that will bring health coverage for myself and my family. Who knows, I might just end up working at Trader Joe’s. 🤷‍♀

I think it’s a stack that really pays off in the long run for solo projects. After a long week of work the last thing I want to do is go tracking down runtime errors (undefined is not a function, my old friend) or messing around with Docker containers and Kubernetes clusters. It also doesn’t hurt that once you throw away the costly deployment abstractions, the operating expenses turn out to be a lot cheaper.