Sr. Software Engineer at CallRail building microservices to support 3rd party integrations. PhD student at the University of Nebraska studying bioinformatics, machine learning, and algorithms.
I'm the sender in question and what Lane forgot to mention was this email was in response to him asking me to provide him with free labor to make his for-profit site better. I have a blog that is free to read, has no ads, and doesn't require a login to visit. I'm also active in the OSS community helping make free software better for no reason other than i want to help. so your assumption that I'm not "giving anything back" is incredibly insulting to the work I put in for free to help the community.
I mean this as sincerely as possible, because sometimes things come out wrong over text: I genuinely appreciate your email.
That said, I never asked for what I would consider to be "free labor". I asked if you could provide feedback on Boot.dev. You said you didn't want to because you consider that to be free labor, and that's totally cool! I really don't mind. I've provided tons of for-profit and non-profit companies feedback and don't consider it to be "free labor" if it's just a quick look.
Anyhow, no worries at all, wish you the best Erik!
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I'm the sender in question and what Lane forgot to mention was this email was in response to him asking me to provide him with free labor to make his for-profit site better. I have a blog that is free to read, has no ads, and doesn't require a login to visit. I'm also active in the OSS community helping make free software better for no reason other than i want to help. so your assumption that I'm not "giving anything back" is incredibly insulting to the work I put in for free to help the community.
I mean this as sincerely as possible, because sometimes things come out wrong over text: I genuinely appreciate your email.
That said, I never asked for what I would consider to be "free labor". I asked if you could provide feedback on Boot.dev. You said you didn't want to because you consider that to be free labor, and that's totally cool! I really don't mind. I've provided tons of for-profit and non-profit companies feedback and don't consider it to be "free labor" if it's just a quick look.
Anyhow, no worries at all, wish you the best Erik!