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Paul Cantrell

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Minneapolis

About Paul

I fell in love with programming at first sight in 1982 on an Apple ][+, and never looked back. I now teach computer science at Macalester College, do some freelance software dev at (mostly) Bust Out, and lead a secret double life as a composer/pianist. I love creating beautiful things, and sharing the beauty of creation with people of all kinds.

Coding, teaching, parenting, and playing keeps me busy and happy — but all that leaves very little time for tending to non-paying open source! Sponsorship helps me carve out OSS time.

About the Project

I’ll use this GitHub sponsorship primarily to work on Siesta. Its radical approach to consuming REST-shaped APIs has a transformative effect on app codebases, similar to the effect that frameworks like SwiftUI / Flutter / Vue have had on UI development.

👉 MVC : declarative rendering  ::  callback-based networking : Siesta 👈

Siesta could help a lot of developers out there delete a lot of code!

However, it needs time and attention, and it’s hard to give those to a non-paying project. Sponsoring me will help me prioritize Siesta, and help it grow to its revolutionary potential.

Featured work

  1. bustoutsolutions/siesta

    The civilized way to write REST API clients for iOS / macOS

    Swift 2,188
  2. realm/jazzy

    Soulful docs for Swift & Objective-C

    Ruby 7,354
  3. minnestar/sessionizer

    Conference session management application

    Ruby 29
  4. pcantrell/sessionizer-visualizer

    Demo visualization of the Minnebar sessionizer

    Vue
  5. pcantrell/devgarden

    Source for https://devgarden.macalester.edu

    Ruby 4
  6. Ruby

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Tip jar: “cool project! keep it up!”

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  • Paul smiling when he sees that you supported him

$4 a month

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Tinkerer: “thanks for making my off-hours experiments better!”

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  • Personal thank-you note

$16 a month

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Production user: “I got it on the app store thanks to Siesta!”

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  • Paul smiling when he sees that you supported him
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  • Siesta will link to either your profile or your app on a “used by” page

$64 a month

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Sponsor: “I’m invested in seeing this project continue”

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  • Paul smiling when he sees that you supported him
  • Personal thank-you note
  • Siesta will link to either your profile or your app on a “used by” page
  • Priority support for your inquiries, issues, and pull requests

$256 a month

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Featured sponsor: “Siesta’s ongoing maintenance is crucial to our business”

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  • Paul smiling when he sees that you supported him
  • Personal thank-you note
  • Siesta will link to either your profile or your app on a “used by” page
  • Priority support for your inquiries, issues, and pull requests
  • Your company’s or organization’s name listed as a sponsor in Siesta release announcements