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**Mat Ryer:** Yeah. There's a plugin called "Is it up?", which - you give it a URL and it just pings it and tells you if it's up or not. |
**Jerod Santo:** \[56:06\] Nice. |
**Mat Ryer:** It's so simple, but... |
**Adam Stacoviak:** Cardi B would tell you... |
**Mat Ryer:** Yeah, she would, wouldn't she? |
**Adam Stacoviak:** Anyway... |
**Mat Ryer:** Is she related to Jason P.? |
**Adam Stacoviak:** She might be. You'll have to ask her. |
**Jerod Santo:** Cardi B and Jason P. |
**Mat Ryer:** I'd love to see those two collaborating. |
**Jerod Santo:** A colab... |
**Adam Stacoviak:** Yeah... Can we talk a bit about the effort into this, and maybe any commercial plans for this, being supported as a community developer... I know you've got a GitHub Sponsor, you've got some tracking in terms of a goal you've got... 54%toward your 50 sponsors goal... What are you doing there? How ar... |
**Mat Ryer:** Yeah, it's interesting. Actually, it was Nat Friedman that said "You should set up Sponsors on GitHub." When the project was first around, there was no such thing as GitHub Sponsors. |
**Adam Stacoviak:** And he's a sponsor. Good job, Mat. |
**Mat Ryer:** He is, indeed, a sponsor. I think he's my biggest sponsor, actually. |
**Adam Stacoviak:** Would that be the $1,024/month "a bit creepy now" sponsor level? \[laughter\] What I love about this - let me take the mic here real quick... 2, 4, 8, 16, 32, 64, 128, 256, 512 and 1,024. That's your tiers, which is just super-cool. I won't even say the lines for each of those. |
**Mat Ryer:** Yeah, go on if you want to. |
**Adam Stacoviak:** That's a lot... |
**Jerod Santo:** It's a lot. |
**Mat Ryer:** I'd love to hear-- |
**Jerod Santo:** Pick your favorite three. |
**Adam Stacoviak:** "A succulent Chinese meal." \[laughter\] "Your stuff makes our stuff better." "Your contributions are really making a difference to us." "Keep doing what you're doing! You're really helping us." "A couple of coffees, or one coffee in a fancy place." That's a few. |
**Mat Ryer:** Yeah. Some places coffees are more expensive. |
**Adam Stacoviak:** "Cheers! British for thank you." |
**Mat Ryer:** I like the $2, which is "A tip of a hat." But $4 is "Two tips of the hat, or a tip from two hats." |
**Jerod Santo:** \[laughs\] That is good. |
**Adam Stacoviak:** That is good. So that's what I love about you too, Mat, is this humor you bring to just life in general... And I think your tiers are an example of that. |
**Mat Ryer:** Thank you, thank you. It's a coping mechanism, really. It's like, if I look like I'm not taking it too seriously, I can't really be too embarrassed if things go bad. |
**Jerod Santo:** \[laughs\] |
**Adam Stacoviak:** I would think that that would be seriously not serious then, because that serious enough to think through that detail and be that funny, but then not serious enough because it's not like "Corporate enterprise sponsor." "You've made my meal today." I don't know, it's just a bit more... It's just very... |
**Mat Ryer:** Yeah. I don't take it too seriously. I use the sponsorship there -- my idea is to distribute that to other people contributing, because I do want to keep the project alive... And there is work to do. It doesn't have a major release yet of xbar, so there are still some things that are being worked out, and... |
**Adam Stacoviak:** I hope GitHub does something about that at some point, because that's what OpenCollective has done well, was remove that portion... Because it's generally -- this gets into the details, but it's generally some sort of fiscal sponsor... We talked with Pia, which we'll have out before this episode, so... |
**Mat Ryer:** \[59:49\] Yeah. I do think GitHub will end up enabling that, at least, the sponsorship for a project... Because at the moment everyone's sponsoring me on that. Not everyone... In fact, if you want to sponsor me, please do. But people are sponsoring me personally, and it'd be better if you could sponsor th... |
So yeah, I'm not trying to make money from xbar. That's not really what it was ever for. I did get sent loads of socks at one point, because in the readme I had an Amazon wishlist, because people were asking like "Can I send you some Bitcoin, or something?" I needed some socks at the time. But then I ended up getting a... |
**Adam Stacoviak:** \[laughs\] |
**Jerod Santo:** Seriously? |
**Mat Ryer:** Yeah... And it was just the same pair of socks, 200 times. I've still got loads of them. I've got these red socks... So you'll always see me wearing red socks. |
**Adam Stacoviak:** Lifetime supply, there you go. |
**Mat Ryer:** Yeah. |
**Jerod Santo:** Problem solved. |
**Adam Stacoviak:** Yeah. |
**Jerod Santo:** Socks all around. |
**Adam Stacoviak:** So that's good... So your goal then is to - at least currently with Sponsors - generate enough sponsorship of you to give back to those who are contributing to xbar. |
**Mat Ryer:** Yeah. I really want it to be used to keep xbar alive. There will always be work to do, and there were lots of feature requests which didn't quite fit into -- you know, you want it to be simple, but maybe there's some places where it can be more complicated, and that's okay... So there's a tough kind of ba... |
And yeah, then it's just a case of use it and build your own plugins and share what you're built, tweet me. I love seeing people - the things they've built. And if you can, then also contribute that to the repo, xbar plugins repo. We'll put the information in the show notes, I'm sure... |
**Adam Stacoviak:** Yeah. |
**Mat Ryer:** And yeah, please get involved. It's a lot of fun, and... You know, your creativity really is your only limit in this. |
**Adam Stacoviak:** Well, to get more Mat, you can go to Go Time and listen to Go Time, and get weekly doses, or hits, or tips from Mat. xbar.com... Is that right? |
**Jerod Santo:** Xbarapp.com. |
**Adam Stacoviak:** Xbarapp.com, thank you for correcting me. Or also github.com/matryer. |
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