{"id":22111,"date":"2018-07-16T16:32:38","date_gmt":"2018-07-16T20:32:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/?p=22111"},"modified":"2018-08-08T13:28:37","modified_gmt":"2018-08-08T17:28:37","slug":"supporting-this-site","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/2018\/07\/16\/supporting-this-site\/","title":{"rendered":"Supporting This Site"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Thank you for reading my blog. After all these years, it&rsquo;s still a bit of a surprise that people are paying attention to what I write, with some even asking whether I&rsquo;m OK if I don&rsquo;t post anything for a while. I really appreciate that you spend time here and that I receive such thoughtful comments, e-mails, and Twitter replies.<\/p>\n<p>I&rsquo;ve been told this is overdue, but I&rsquo;d like to ask you to help support this site financially. This is optional. I&rsquo;m not creating a paywall, and I don&rsquo;t want you to feel guilty if you aren&rsquo;t able to help. But if you enjoy what I&rsquo;m doing here, please consider joining via <a href=\"https:\/\/www.patreon.com\/mjtsai\">Patreon<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n<p>To be clear, I see this site as a labor of love. I&rsquo;m not interested in making it more commercial or in giving up software development. I would like to keep it going more or less as it&rsquo;s been: a personal site with a regular posting schedule. However, the writing does consume a substantial amount of my time, and I&rsquo;m hoping that patronage will help me to justify that.<\/p>\n\n<p>Update (2018-07-16): Thanks to <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/zorn\/status\/1018965216976162817\">Mike Zornek<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/aaronvegh\/status\/1018973885742682113\">Aaron Vegh<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/warwick\/status\/1018982655684063233\">Bob Warwick<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/andrewabernathy\/status\/1019002999115411457\">Andrew Abernathy<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/invalidname\/status\/1019060628747669505\">Chris Adamson<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/danielpunkass\/status\/1019065143165112321\">Daniel Jalkut<\/a>, and others who have already signed up.<\/p>\n\n<p>Update (2018-07-17): Thanks also to <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/bgannin\/status\/1019102728839049216\">Brian Ganninger<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/daringfireball.net\/linked\/2018\/07\/17\/tsai-patreon\">John Gruber<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/jcenters\/status\/1019303453896708096\">Josh Centers<\/a>, and <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/stroughtonsmith\/status\/1019317885179752450\">Steve Troughton-Smith<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n<p>Update (2018-07-18): Thanks also to <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/cparnot\/status\/1019490019210350593\">Charles Parnot<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/petermaurer\/status\/1019505943883763713\">Peter Maurer<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/siegel\/status\/1019559820452597762\">Rich Siegel<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/jpsowin\/status\/1019589513864024065\">Josh Sowin<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/betalogue\/status\/1019390517975699456\">Pierre Igot<\/a>, and <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/nickheer\/status\/1019629664447262720\">Nick Heer<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n<p>Update (2018-07-19): Thanks also to <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/PierreLebeaupin\/status\/1019913886504497155\">Pierre Lebeaupin<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/jaanus\/status\/1020025500134264834\">Jaanus Kase<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n<p>Update (2018-07-20): Thanks also to <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/peternlewis\/status\/1020143381568077824\">Peter N Lewis<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n<p>Update (2018-07-25): Thanks also to <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/felix_schwarz\/status\/1022118347482312704\">Felix Schwarz<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/steipete\/status\/1022221394615173128\">Peter Steinberger<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n<p>Update (2018-07-26): Thanks also to <a href=\"https:\/\/kottke.org\/18\/04\/blogging-is-most-certainly-not-dead\">Jason Kottke<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/bob_burrough\/status\/1014269176213483520\">Bob Burrough<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/olebegemann\/status\/1022431026990206977\">Ole Begemann<\/a>, and <a href=\"https:\/\/infinitediaries.net\/supporting-michael-tsais-blog\/\">Wojtek Pietrusiewicz<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n<p>Update (2018-08-03): Thanks also to <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/atineoSE\/status\/1025398845998604288\">Adrian Tineo<\/a>.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Thank you for reading my blog. After all these years, it&rsquo;s still a bit of a surprise that people are paying attention to what I write, with some even asking whether I&rsquo;m OK if I don&rsquo;t post anything for a while. I really appreciate that you spend time here and that I receive such thoughtful [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"apple_news_api_created_at":"2018-08-08T17:28:40Z","apple_news_api_id":"ab16d686-ea14-47e4-8a45-f6222ec37548","apple_news_api_modified_at":"2018-08-08T17:28:41Z","apple_news_api_revision":"AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAEg==","apple_news_api_share_url":"https:\/\/apple.news\/AqxbWhuoUR-SKRfYiLsN1SA","apple_news_coverimage":0,"apple_news_coverimage_caption":"","apple_news_is_hidden":false,"apple_news_is_paid":false,"apple_news_is_preview":false,"apple_news_is_sponsored":false,"apple_news_maturity_rating":"","apple_news_metadata":"\"\"","apple_news_pullquote":"","apple_news_pullquote_position":"","apple_news_slug":"","apple_news_sections":"\"\"","apple_news_suppress_video_url":false,"apple_news_use_image_component":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[1717,1659,1227],"class_list":["post-22111","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","tag-patreon","tag-this-blog","tag-top-posts"],"apple_news_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22111","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=22111"}],"version-history":[{"count":18,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22111\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":22359,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22111\/revisions\/22359"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=22111"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=22111"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=22111"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}