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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.