Become a sponsor to Kyle Simpson

Kyle Simpson

getify

Austin, TX

Hello fellow OSS devs! 👋

I'm Kyle, but most of you just know me around the web as getify. Thank you so much for considering supporting my OSS work through Github Sponsors!

What your support means to me...

I love OSS!

How I approach it: I try to start with an empty file in a public repo, and then make frequent commits as I build/develop it. My assumption is that what I make is the worst possible version of it; the only chance I have of making it better is putting it out there so others can help me make it better.

I have almost 60 public repos on Github, at least a dozen of them active projects in various states of progress. I have so many ideas of projects that I either want to finish or build, and your support will help me dedicate the time to do that work.

A little about me...

Kyle Simpson is a web-oriented software engineer, widely acclaimed for his "You Don't Know JS" book series and nearly 1M hours viewed of his online courses. Kyle's superpower is asking better questions, who deeply believes in maximally using the minimally-necessary tools for any task. As a "human-centric technologist", he's passionate about bringing humans and technology together, evolving engineering organizations towards solving the right problems, in simpler ways. Kyle will always fight for the people behind the pixels.

I'm an author:
- I helped write the HTML5 Cookbook.
- Then, I wrote the widely acclaimed book series, You Don't Know JS 2nd-ed (@YDKJS).
- I also wrote Functional-Light JavaScript (@FLJSbook).
- The YDKJS and FLJS books were all written in the open and can be read for free here on Github. The published books and can also be purchased.
- Over 300k copies of my books have been sold to date. The YDKJS repo also has over 173k stars, the 15th most starred project on Github.
I'm a teacher:
- I've taught over 8k people on core JS topics all over the world.
- All my video courses are available on Frontend Masters; well over 860k hours have been watched!
I'm a speaker:
- I've given over 200 conference talks in 25 countries on six continents.

Thank You for considering support!

--Kyle

@getify's goal is to earn $500 per month

I would really love to have enough sponsorship to justify active development on several of my projects, as well as addressing open issues.

Current sponsors 9

Featured work

getify/You-Dont-Know-JS
A book series (2 published editions) on the JS language.

184,844
getify/Functional-Light-JS
Pragmatic, balanced FP in JavaScript. @FLJSBook on twitter.

JavaScript 16,716
getify/CAF
Cancelable Async Flows (CAF)

JavaScript 1,361
getify/monio
The most powerful IO monad implementation in JS, possibly in any language!

JavaScript 1,125
getify/foi-lang
Foi: a different kind of functional programming language

JavaScript 332

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