Become a sponsor to Karsten Schmidt
Hey there,
I'm Karsten, an open source author, polyglot software engineer, computational designer, educator and artist, actively developing open source tools since 1999.
Maybe you know me as the author of the thi.ng and toxiclibs.org library collections (among many others). Both are large-scale meta-projects (each 80-200k LOC and including hundreds of educational example projects), have been continuously developed over years and, at various stages, been instrumental in their respective communities (Processing/Java, Clojure/ClojureScript, TypeScript). Over the years, both projects have been key components for various award-winning computational design works (not just my own) and been used both as production and teaching tools in disparate fields like architecture, digital fabrication, generative design, data visualizations, interactive art installations, audio/DSP etc.
For the last 6+ years my current focus of development has been the thi.ng/umbrella mono-repo, a collection of ~190 TypeScript projects, providing much needed, simple - not simplistic - solutions for data driven, functional development and to generally de-clutter TypeScript development, inside & outside the browser. The umbrella project is designed as an anti-framework and antidote to other, often over-engineered OOP approaches, providing small, highly composable and complementary tools, which are easy to reason about. The project covers an extremely wide scope of development topics: from useful data structures, state containers/management, reactive programming pipelines, DSLs, low-level memory (e.g. for WASM interop) to 2D/3D geometry/visualization tools, UI generation and many more... Please check the readme to get a full impression.
My goal with GitHub Sponsors is to get to a point where I can work full-time progressing and maintaining these projects, as well as developing better support & community structures around this ecosystem. I also want to set aside more time for creating educational content, incl. live streams. If you feel this is a worthwhile effort, please consider sponsoring! Thank you in advance!
Featured work
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thi-ng/umbrella
⛱ Broadly scoped ecosystem & mono-repository of 200 TypeScript projects (and ~180 examples) for general purpose, functional, data driven development
TypeScript 3,446 -
thi-ng/zig-thing
Small collection of data types/structures, utilities & open-learning with Zig
Zig 35 -
thi-ng/geom
2D/3D geometry toolkit for Clojure/Clojurescript
Clojure 963 -
thi-ng/fabric
Signal/Collect inspired compute graph infrastructure for Clojure & Clojurescript
Shell 158 -
postspectacular/toxiclibs
Official master repo (Git version)
Java 183 -
thi-ng/c-thing
Geometry related data structures (C11)
C 108
$5 a month
SelectThank you - Every little helps and is appreciated!
- 2x thi.ng logo stickers - mailed to you anywhere in the world
- Your name added to sponsors page on thi.ng website
- Sponsor badge 🎖on your profile!
$10 a month
SelectThank you - A great way to help sustain ongoing development & hosting costs!
- 3x thi.ng logo stickers - mailed to you anywhere in the world
- Your name added to sponsors page on thi.ng website
- Sponsor badge 🎖on your profile!
$20 a month
SelectOpen Source Supporter
You're simply wonderful! ❤️
- 5x thi.ng logo stickers - mailed to you anywhere in the world
- Your name and link added to the sponsors page on the thi.ng website
- Thank you shoutout on Twitter
- Sponsor badge 🎖on your profile!
$50 a month
SelectTop Supporter
This is a serious help - thank you! 🙏
- 1x thi.ng logo black T-shirt (contact me for sizing)
- Your name and link added to the sponsors page on the thi.ng website
- Thank you shoutout on Twitter
- Sponsor badge 🎖on your profile!
$100 a month
SelectBronze Sponsor
- Your name & small logo added to Bronze Supporter section on thi.ng website
- 1x thi.ng logo black T-shirt (contact me for sizing)
- Priority GitHub issues (I will deal with your issues first)
- Thank you shoutout on Twitter
- Sponsor badge 🎖on your profile!
$200 a month
SelectSilver Sponsor
- Your name & medium size logo added to the Silver Supporter section on thi.ng website
- 2x thi.ng logo black T-shirt (contact me for sizing)
- Priority GitHub issues (I will deal with your issues first)
- Monthly Thank you tweet (~11k followers)
- Sponsor badge 🎖on your profile!
$500 a month
SelectGold Sponsor
- Your name & large logo added to Gold Supporter section on thi.ng website
- 3x thi.ng logo black T-shirt (contact me for sizing)
- 8 hours per year remote consulting (development, support etc., eligible after 2 months of sponsoring)
- Priority GitHub issues (I will deal with your issues first)
- Monthly Thank you tweet (~11k followers)
- Sponsor badge 🎖on your profile!
$1,000 a month
SelectPlatinum Sponsor
- Your name & large logo added to Platinum Supporter section on thi.ng website
- 3x thi.ng logo black T-shirt (contact me for sizing)
- 24 hours per year remote consulting (development, support etc., eligible after 2 months of sponsoring)
- Priority GitHub issues (I will deal with your issues first)
- Monthly thank you tweet (~11k followers)
- Sponsor badge 🎖on your profile!