Kostis Maninakis
@maninak

I'm Kostis. I build and maintain open-source tools developers depend on, like ts-xor (25M+ npm downloads, ~220k a week), and I gather my Radicle work under radicle.tools. Radicle, for the unfamiliar, is the peer-to-peer alternative to GitHub. That includes:

• Grove, a Radicle node in your browser: read, write and collaborate on code, offline and on any device, with no install. In early access.
• Taiga, the social face of the Radicle network: follow people and repos, catch up on activity, discover projects. Soon.
• radicle.at, one of the oldest and largest public Radicle seeds, with bespoke, live statistics of the whole network at stats.radicle.at.
• The Radicle VS Code extension, started during my time at Radworks.
• radicle-backup and radicle-seed-prune, for anyone running a Radicle node.

Working on all that is also how I found a vulnerability in Radicle's transport, disclosed with the maintainers, which prompted the Radicle 2.0 release.

Why donate

I write open source because it's fun, but sustaining it takes time I'd otherwise spend on paid work. Your support tells me I should keep doing what I'm doing, directly pays for my infrastructure costs, and buys me hours I can spend shipping, maintaining, and answering issues instead of context-switching to client projects.

• €35/month covers the running costs of what I already maintain: the server, domains and mail.
• €720/month buys one focused day per week on OSS.
• €3,600/month is where I can go full-time on this.

No Liberapay account? GitHub Sponsors works too, and for a bank transfer or Bitcoin just message me.

Other ways to help that cost nothing: star ✨ my repos on GitHub, seed 🌱 them on Radicle, share them with colleagues, or send a kind message. All of it counts.

Hiring or collaboration

Reach me through any of the linked accounts below, or through my website.

meraki (μεράκι) ≈ passion, love for the craft