Hey, I'm Eric

I'm an open source developer, cypherpunk, and public interest technologist.
Sponsorships allow me to dedicate my time toward open source, collaborative work, including public interest software development and security research. This includes covering expenses such as:

• Web hosting (blog hosting, web analytics hosting, DNS leases)
• Hardware hacking equipment (soldering tools, oscilloscopes, logic analyzers, etc.)
• Cost-of-living (food, rent, insurance, utilities)

For the most part software is cheap; my biggest cost is opportunity cost. Subsidizing software costs allows me to focus on public interest open source work rather than proprietary, for-profit work.

Hardware work is more expensive. Oscilloscopes, signal generators, power supplies, soldering equipment, multimeters, ICs, cables, connectors, breakout boards, etc. all imply costs which limit otherwise rapid prototyping. While I've built out a small electronics lab for personal work, a revenue stream through sponsorship would greatly accelerate my physical capacity for hardware hacking.

All of my work on GitHub is published under open source licenses (usually MIT). I practice Radical Transparency. To that end, I openly publish my work here and via writeups on my blog, http://juniperspring.xyz/. The code for my blog is also open source. 🌱❤️