{"id":6835,"date":"2015-09-01T20:49:00","date_gmt":"2015-09-02T00:49:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/esr.ibiblio.org\/?p=6835"},"modified":"2015-09-01T20:49:00","modified_gmt":"2015-09-02T00:49:00","slug":"i-have-a-patreon-page","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/esr.ibiblio.org\/?p=6835","title":{"rendered":"I have a Patreon page"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I created a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.patreon.com\/esr\">Patreon page<\/a> just before leaving for vacation on 2 Aug.  The background to this is that while I&#8217;m now getting some regular bucks for working on NTPsec, it&#8217;s not a lot. Royalties from my books have been dwindling and my wife Cathy isn&#8217;t making all that much from legal contract gigs that are all she can get since Obamacare costs killed her full-time law job. Add the fact that our eight-year-old car has developed problems that would cost more to fix than its book value, and the house needs a new roof, and it&#8217;s looking pretty broke out.  <\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p>(Yes, we do have some savings and stock.  No, I don&#8217;t want to tap them, because thank you I do not want to be on the dole or dead of starvation and exposure when I&#8217;m really old. And, even if doing so weren&#8217;t in conflict with my values, counting on the U.S. government to be able to keep me in enough money for food and shelter in 2035 or so would be <em>deeply stupid<\/em>.)<\/p>\n<p>Rather to my surprise, the page has attracted a whole 67 patrons and $409.17 in monthly pledges.  I wasn&#8217;t actually expecting Patreon to yield that much, as it seems to be strongly oriented towards the beret-and-nose-ring crowd.  It&#8217;ll help, some.<\/p>\n<p>All this is by way of explaining why from now on my new-release announcements will probably be going to Patreon, mostly, rather than here on the blog. They&#8217;re the closest I have to the kind of artistic content releases the Patreon base seems to expect, and do seem to actually produce upticks in pledges.<\/p>\n<p>My first month&#8217;s Patreon pledges will just about cover the additional 32GB of memory I dropped into the Great Beast in order to work on GCC&#8217;s Subversion-to-Git conversion.  It&#8217;s not going to make much of a dent in (for example) medical insurance, thanks to the statist bastards who&#8217;ve driven health-care costs into the stratosphere through their incessant meddling.  (They cost my wife her job, too &#8211; that&#8217;s been psychologically rough on her.)<\/p>\n<p>If you enjoy this blog, please pledge generously. Whether you file the cost under &#8220;entertainment&#8221; or &#8220;keep an infrastructure gnome fed so your civilization will keep working&#8221;, a little help from each one of a lot of people can go a long way.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I created a Patreon page just before leaving for vacation on 2 Aug. The background to this is that while I&#8217;m now getting some regular bucks for working on NTPsec, it&#8217;s not a lot. Royalties from my books have been dwindling and my wife Cathy isn&#8217;t making all that much from legal contract gigs that&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"http:\/\/esr.ibiblio.org\/?p=6835\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">I have a Patreon page<\/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":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6835","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-administrivia","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/esr.ibiblio.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6835","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=6835"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/esr.ibiblio.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6835\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6836,"href":"http:\/\/esr.ibiblio.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6835\/revisions\/6836"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/esr.ibiblio.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=6835"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/esr.ibiblio.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=6835"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/esr.ibiblio.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=6835"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}