Hi! I'm Wez and I've been working on Open Source projects since the late '90s. I've worked on quite a range of things from PHP's internals and extension ecosystem, through to automated debuggers, messaging systems, created the watchman filesystem monitoring service and the EdenFS source control aware fuse filesystem.
My current spare time hobby hacking is in a couple of areas:
- WezTerm - a feature-rich cross platform terminal emulator
- Custom mechanical keyboards such as my Half Deck keyboard. I contributed support for BLE to the QMK firmware as part of this journey, and bootstrapped Rust support for ATSAMD micro-controllers, and brought together the nRF Rust folks along the way.
While I don't need sponsorship to live, your contribution will help me in a couple of ways:
- I'd like to be able to code-sign the macOS and Windows builds of WezTerm. This requires non-trivial recurring fees to maintain the developer identity that I can't justify as an out of pocket expense.
- On the keyboard/hardware side, having more resources for more advanced/powerful maker gear and/or more frequently being able to order up some PCBs for a new idea helps to iterate and innovate more quickly.
14 sponsors are funding wez’s work.
I'd like to do something to get code-signed binaries of wezterm published for Windows and macOS. The most useful EV code signing certificate requires some corporate/legal entity setup in addition to the raw fees from the CA which makes the total annual cost rather high (likely in excess of $2000). I need to figure out more details around this, but before I spend a lot of time researching that, I'd just like to see if we can grow an initial pool of sponsors and get a sense of what is sustainable.
Featured work
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wez/wezterm
A GPU-accelerated cross-platform terminal emulator and multiplexer written by @wez and implemented in Rust
Rust 2,934
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