+ support me
+ look, i'm gonna level with ya. i need money to live. most of the stuff i do is what you might consider "socially useful" but also "generally unprofitable". given our capitalist society, my "value" is judged by the latter criteria rather than the former. you can skip past this section but consider maybe don't.
+ ways to support me
+ in order of most effective to least effective:
+ donate directly
+ here's how this one works: you can just give me money. i'll keep doing the stuff i do. this option is good if you already think the stuff i do is cool and worthwhile and valuable without me needing to convince you.
+
+ - you can back me on liberapay.com/trwnh via bank, card, stripe or paypal. liberapay is a bit weird with how it processes payments, but you generally have an option to do "automatic renewal" or "manual renewal". you can do manual renewal and then cancel the subscription if you want to do a one-time payment.
+ - you can also donate via paypal: tarawneh.abdullah@gmail.com if you prefer paypal for some reason. i'm not sure if that paypal.me link charges extra fees, so you might need to do it manually, and if so, make sure to select "friends and family" instead of "business".
+
+ hire me to do something for you
+ i can explain things and i can do websites. generally, i'm really really really good at thinking things through and analyzing them. i put stuff up on abdullahtarawneh.com last year and i kinda stalled due to a lot going on in my life and not much going on marketably. but maybe check out the following pages:
+
+ -
+ Work -- the landing page i made that was intended to get people to hire me or contract me. not really happy with it at the moment, but still worth looking at.
+
+ -
+ Mastodon Documentation -- in particular, this one is something i'm way more proud of. take a look y'all.
+
+
+ buy something from amazon and tell em i sent ya
+ can't say this is something i recommend doing, EXCEPT IF you were already going to buy something from amazon. the more expensive the better, since it's percentage-based. but don't go buying things using this referral link just because of me, y'hear?
+ https://amzn.to/2rydvvC
+ my pitch is basically this: if you can't avoid amazon and you're going to buy something from them regardless, then at least use my link so that they pay me a bit of the revenue and so that it slightly reduces their profits.
-
-
-
i also contribute to open source software and work on the web.
-
-
+
+ some questions you might have
+ "yo why is this website so plain"
+ i used to have a nicer-looking one-pager on here. at some point i decided i'd rather actually update my website with actual information instead of worrying about fitting things into some grand design. and for a one-pager, using a static site generator like hugo, which i usually use for this sort of thing... well, that's overkill, isn't it? i'd rather just dump some html in a text file and call it a day. maybe a touch of css, for legibility and a lil flair.
+ this style of website has other advantages too, y'know. it's lightweight and performs well on pretty much any device. and it respects people's defaults. some people like to change their fonts or font sizes, and i don't wanna get in the way of that. it's just text, after all. you should be able to read it on your own terms.
+ in any case, the main takeaway here is that anything worth doing is also worth doing poorly. it's better to actually do the thing instead of dreaming about how to perfect the thing and ending up with nothing at all.
-
-
-
consider supporting me?
-
-
+
+ things people have said about me
+
+ -
+
it's scary how much you know.
+
+ -
+
you're the first person i've met that keeps a spreadsheet of their lightbulbs.
+
+ -
+
VERY MUCH not garbage [...] a worthwhile human
+
+ -
+
honestly, i trust your judgement more than i trust my own.
+
+
+
+
+ done here? check out some other things if you want
+
+ -
+ wiki.trwnh.com -- a place to dump my thoughts
+
+ -
+ tumblr -- i kinda don't use this anymore but idk where else to put this link on this page :x
+
+ -
+ no seriously i need money aaaa
+
+