I contribute to FLOSS projects in hopes that the future will be better than the present.

I am currently focusing on:

• [x] Moving toward a v2 release of the venerable oauth2 gem that supports authentication in a plurality of Ruby apps
• [ ] updating seed_migration gem
• [ ] migrating my suite of Resque plugins to the Resque org
• [ ] Patching to update dependencies, and bring each rubygem into compliance with rubocop-packaging so they can be included in the Debian linux distribution
• [ ] Migrating to Github Actions for CI, fixing builds, and updating the spec suites to drop EOL'd Rubies, and include latest Rubies
• [ ] Improve documentation, and investigate some of the thornier issues that have been raised in issue trackers.
• [x] 2023 releases to date (only listing latest major release of each, as some had multiple releases):
  • require_bench v1.0.4
  • gem_bench v2.0.0
  • standard-rubocop-lts v1.0.9
  • rubocop-ruby1_8 (decided, why not, I have all the others already)
  • updates to rubocop-ruby1_9, *2_0, *2_1, *2_2, *2_3, *2_4, *2_5, *2_6, *2_7. *3_0, *3_2)
• [x] 2022 releases:
  • rubocop-lts (also rubocop-ruby1_9, *2_0, *2_1, *2_2, *2_3, *2_4, *2_5, *2_6, *2_7, *3_0, and *3_1, *3_2)
  • version_gem
  • service_actor-promptable
  • gitmoi-regex
  • pretty_feed
  • oauth2 v2

Ruby continues to be my favorite language. I hope the day will never come when I stop contributing into the Ruby ecosystem!

When you contribute to me, in sponsorship of my open source work, it helps me keep the gears turning on the many projects I support. Sponsorships are motivational, and truly appreciated! I would say that all the money I earn from sponsorships goes to charity, but the reality is I donate many orders of magnitude more to charity than what I make from sponsorships. Bottom line is I give away everything I don't need to support myself. I'm currently supporting around 400 current or former refugees in war-torn West Africa, around half in Ghana, and half in Liberia. Many of the current refugees are from Ivory Coast.