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Nicolas F.

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Hey, I'm CounterPillow! I'm a 20-something year old from Switzerland. I make contributions to several FOSS projects you might have heard of in passing.

I used to maintain Minecraft-Overviewer, a popular Minecraft mapping application with a long history spanning 10 years, and a codebase (unfortunately) reflecting this. I also pay for the costs of hosting the server running the automatic builders and the website (among some other things), which costs me precisely €29.87 per month. I do this voluntarily, and will keep doing it even if I have no sponsors at all.

I also contribute to the Linux kernel, specifically regarding mainlining ARM platforms that PINE64 products use. Currently, my focus is on the RK3566 and RK3588 SoCs.

The purpose of this sponsorship is twofold:

  • While my basic cost of living is covered, my personal savings have been in steady decline, which makes me hesitate to make expenses required for certain free and open source software work I do; be this adding additional infrastructure, or acquiring hardware that allows me to pursue new projects and improve compatibility of existing ones.
  • It may be true that there is a certain freedom that comes with not being financially tied to the people who use the software I write, but it also makes my contributions highly dependant on how I feel about donating my time to work on certain things.

One thing I should be perfectly clear about is that no matter the amount of sponsorship money flowing my way, I am unlikely to work full time or even part time on FOSS contributions, as I am currently pursuing an education that does not leave time for a side job. So my contributions are always limited to my free time, and whether I feel like staring at a computer screen during that free time, though the sponsorship obviously tips the balance in favour of doing so.

Current sponsors 3

@bwildenhain
@Ralim
@zeromind
Past sponsors 14
@morsik
@fafrd
@brychrwolf
@spencerfrost
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@libre-computer-project
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@tomasdev
@geerlingguy
@mpdfls
@gamelaster
@acelinkio

Featured work

  1. overviewer/Minecraft-Overviewer

    Render high-resolution maps of a Minecraft world with a Leaflet powered interface

    Python 3,372
  2. tunabrain/tungsten

    High performance physically based renderer in C++11

    C++ 1,760
  3. CounterPillow/Matura-Fraktale

    Code for the final thesis paper I wrote for my Swiss matura, a GLSL-powered Mandelbrot viewer

    C 3
  4. CounterPillow/asm_playground

    In which I bumble my way through handwriting SIMD

    C
  5. torvalds/linux

    Linux kernel source tree

  6. Plebian-Linux/quartz64-images

    GitHub Actions Repository for automatically generated images for the Quartz64 family of single board computers

    Shell 42

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