Become a sponsor to Joel Arvidsson
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I'm Joel, and I write a bunch of Open Source libraries primarily in the JavaScript/React/React Native/Swift UI realm. I don't do it for Twitter fame, money, career, status or even idealistic reasons – it's just because my happy place is solving problems, helping out, and sharing what I make with others. Despite sparse promotion, my libraries are fairly popular in terms of stars and downloads, and recently appeared on the ThoughtWorks Technology Radar.
The work I do is on weekends and late nights – sometimes I even take vacation/unpaid leave to materialize a bigger idea I have. This means that in order to keep my AFK relationships and mental sanity, my projects don't always get the attention they deserve. If I can sustain myself on sponsorships, I'll quit my job to focus on OSS and community work full time instead.
Some things I want to spend more time on are:
- Performance tooling (such as my Flipper plugin)
- Refactor RNVI to a multi package/mono repo to reduce bundle bloat, automatic linking and allow for custom community packages
- Visual management UI for Loki that can be integrated with CI
- Horizontal scalability for Loki to be able to run tests at full concurrency in lambdas/cloud functions
- Support issues
Important: I don't want Open Source to become transactional as I believe it's detrimental to the projects' long term health. So if you consider sponsoring me; do it because you think I do a good job in the community or have use for the libraries I create, not because you expect me to implement a particular feature.
Featured work
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oblador/react-native-vector-icons
Customizable Icons for React Native with support for image source and full styling.
TypeScript 17,484 -
oblador/react-native-animatable
Standard set of easy to use animations and declarative transitions for React Native
JavaScript 9,860 -
oblador/react-native-progress
Progress indicators and spinners for React Native
JavaScript 3,634 -
oblador/react-native-keychain
🔑 Keychain Access for React Native
Kotlin 3,231 -
oblador/loki
👁 Visual Regression Testing for Storybook
JavaScript 1,795 -
oblador/hush
🤫 Noiseless Browsing – Content Blocker for Safari
JavaScript 3,306