Become a sponsor to Orta Therox
Hi folks - I'm a developer & designer, and I care about developer ecosystems. I mix these skills to improve (or create) open source tools people love.
In my spare time, I've helped create and contributed to projects which define how a lot of people do their daily work. Such as CocoaPods, Prettier, React Native, GraphQL, Jest, Svelte and Danger. I want to do more of that.
Things I'm Exploring
Today, I'm exploring bootstrapping my YouTube and Twitch pages. The goal for the pages are to make videos which are developers with a couple of years under their belt, I think it's a space with a lot of open areas to explore on the platforms.
One of my main goals with YouTube is to do deep dives into the cultural context of why complex technologies like git, Signal or Webkit. On twitch, I do pair programming on complex topics with others.
On the code side,
- I have some nontrivial re-designs for the Babel and Docusaurus homepages.
- I want to work on the docs for the JavaScript/TypeScript bindings for GTK be first-class (and not assume deep GTK knowledge)
- I'm interested in some of the problems that the Swift Package Index is addressing.
- The Danger documentation infra was built for 1 implementation, not 5! The docs site is really stretching past it's initial goals and needs some serious re-architecting.
I'd like to use sponsorship to orient my time towards more work like this. My goals with sponsorship aren't tied to one specific project, ecosystem or idea. There's just a lot of low hanging fruit out there for someone with a background in design, development and open source - I want to collaborate with other to help pick it.
To give you a sense of my previous, and on-going work.
In The JavaScript Ecosystem...
I re-designed the homepages for hyper-popular tools:
I've helped design and product manage important tooling movements like a separate GraphiQL working group, a GraphiQL 2.0 re-write and TypeScript Support in Svelte. Importantly, I've helped these projects run without my intervention because others became more invested.
I've built countless npm modules, VS Code extensions and GitHub Actions which are well used, and well received.
For The macOS/iOS Ecosystem...
I helped build and maintain CocoaPods for the last 8 years. I still make sure that ecosystem does not fail. Starting with a re-design, then creating all of the docs from scratch, then co-building the Mac app which I eventually deprecated.
For The Other Ecosystems...
I built Danger in four separate programming languages, and help get a fifth set up. Over the last five years, collectively, they account for tens of millions of downloads. Helping people raise and maintain the bar of culture quality on countless repos.
Things Which This Doesn't Include
I'm lucky enough to get to work on a developer ecosystem full time at Microsoft. Sponsoring my work does not affect anything related to TypeScript, given that I'm actually paid to work on that 🎉.
What's Cool Stuff Makes Sponsoring Worth It?
You get access to my personal twitter account @hey_orta, which is less polished and more human.
Featured work
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danger/danger-js
⚠️ Stop saying "you forgot to …" in code reviewTypeScript 5,229 -
danger/danger
🚫 Stop saying "you forgot to …" in code review (in Ruby)
Ruby 5,410 -
CocoaPods/CocoaPods
The Cocoa Dependency Manager.
Ruby 14,509 -
graphql/graphiql
GraphiQL & the GraphQL LSP Reference Ecosystem for building browser & IDE tools.
TypeScript 15,894 -
sveltejs/language-tools
The Svelte Language Server, and official extensions which use it
TypeScript 1,199
$2 a month
Select⭐️'d an Orta
You can get read access to @hey_orta, which is my more personal twitter account. I don't intend to change how I use @orta which is mostly focused on shipping things, interesting industry stuff etc.
Every little helps! Perhaps this could be your first sponsor if you've not used it yet? I'd expect this tier to make the core number of sponsors.
$5 a month
SelectIssue Filer
You stand out from the rest. Your name is included in text in my videos. Early access to video content.
$10 a month
SelectCommiter
On your first commit I'll tweet a thanks! Once I hit 5 people at this tier, I'll add a shout-out section in my YouTube videos.
$50 a month
SelectContributor
Private Discord access.
You are cordially invited to jam on twitch. Pairing on something you're interested in or be a part of the group of people I ping before starting a new stream.
$200 a month
SelectMonthly One on One
We schedule an hour a month at a regular occurrence to chat dev tools, design, OSS and documentation