The author was also asking for money to buy a house in SF and travel on private planes like a few days ago..the donation must have really showed up if they are using 20k machines at home.
The author was also asking for money to buy a house in SF and travel on private planes like a few days ago..the donation must have really showed up if they are using 20k machines at home.
She bought the workstation at a discount (see bottom of TFA).
Also, it was pre-2025 (before she got her job at Gradient Canopy), so long before asking for donations.
Finally, if you read the actual donation request, you can see she is trying to make a living doing open source, and is being honest about what the money is going to. Why is that an issue?
There's quite a bit of a spectrum between "trying to make a living doing open source" and "asking for people to pay for a house in one of the most expensive cities in the country - plus a private jet. It's also quite grating to see it written like we should be grateful that we are even allowed to donate to her.
And if she's even half the genius she's claiming to be, why aren't the big tech companies in a bidding war over who get to pay her a million-dollar salary?
From what I've read of her in the past she seems to be a pretty damn good developer. But in the open source world those are a dime a dozen. If you want to make a living off of it you've got to market yourself, and this... isn't how you do that.
Do you have a link?
https://web.archive.org/web/20260529122658/https://justine.l...
I was wondering if the author is joking, but after reading a bit more about the attribution drama, it seems rather a lack of reality check and reflection. If you plagiarize work, get called out on it, and then call this "harrassment", I don't know...
> I have nothing against this person.
Your bad faith reading of that article says otherwise. It's bleedingly obvious that it's satire. Do you think people seriously ask for donations to fund a private airplane?
$20K of gear isn't that much if you're an independent developer, and if you're working for others as such in the US, and you're not a financial basket case, it's doable. She even says "It put me in the poor house for a few months" so she made sacrifices to get there. You can too, if you want to. Why the envy?
To the contrary, so you really seem to have a problem with her.
[references https://web.archive.org/web/20260529122658/https://justine.l... ]
> $20K of gear isn't that much if you're an independent developer
Perhaps in the USA if you have a well-paid job at a MAMAA company ...