{"id":4242,"date":"2012-03-29T12:26:08","date_gmt":"2012-03-29T16:26:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/esr.ibiblio.org\/?p=4242"},"modified":"2012-03-29T12:50:24","modified_gmt":"2012-03-29T16:50:24","slug":"where-your-contributions-go","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/esr.ibiblio.org\/?p=4242","title":{"rendered":"Where your contributions go"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This is a thank-you to my tip-jar contributors.  <\/p>\n<p>Today I spent $88.76 directly out of the tip jar on engineering samples of GPS dongles specially modified to carry the 1PPS signal out to USB.  I will test them, and if the modification succeeds it is quite likely that the company I am cooperating with will begin shipping this mod in a volume product shortly.  This will, for the first time, make time sources with 1ms accuracy available for less than $100 each. The application I have in mind is <a href=\"http:\/\/esr.ibiblio.org\/?p=4171\">fixing the Internet<\/a>; there are many others.<\/p>\n<p>This is the sort of thing that happens when you donate money to support my open-source projects. Thank you; you are helping me make the world a better place.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This is a thank-you to my tip-jar contributors. Today I spent $88.76 directly out of the tip jar on engineering samples of GPS dongles specially modified to carry the 1PPS signal out to USB. I will test them, and if the modification succeeds it is quite likely that the company I am cooperating with will&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"http:\/\/esr.ibiblio.org\/?p=4242\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Where your contributions go<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4242","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/esr.ibiblio.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4242","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/esr.ibiblio.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/esr.ibiblio.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/esr.ibiblio.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/esr.ibiblio.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=4242"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/esr.ibiblio.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4242\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4245,"href":"http:\/\/esr.ibiblio.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4242\/revisions\/4245"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/esr.ibiblio.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4242"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/esr.ibiblio.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4242"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/esr.ibiblio.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4242"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}