Save Walter Hartwell White

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My Story

Hi, I'm Walter. Some of you know me as a software engineer with a fondness for servers, security tooling, and getting things to run on 2GB of memory. Recently I was diagnosed with a serious condition: having too many side projects and no one to pay me for them.

Every project below is backed by a single small server, split into Docker containers, that I set up and debugged myself, usually at 2 in the morning. I don't cook anything in an RV. I just deploy things. I am asking for your help so I can keep doing it, full time, with dental.

Thank you for your kindness. It means the world to me, my family, and my uptime.

Where the Money Goes

Your generous offer supports the following ongoing treatments:

cs2price

Treatment cost: 1 API

Pricing API for CS2 items, plus a Tauri desktop app (Rust and SvelteKit) that values your entire Steam inventory.

Rust, SvelteKit, Tauri

Secure Package Registry

Treatment cost: 1 pipeline

Package scanning pipeline with Tracee runtime tracing, so that no malicious dependency gets to be the one who knocks.

Supply chain security, eBPF, queues

Self-hosted Mail

Treatment cost: 1 headache

Mox mailserver on my own droplet. The host blocks outbound SMTP, so sending is relayed through SMTP2GO.

Mox, DNS, SMTP, Go

Private VPN

Treatment cost: 1 tunnel

WireGuard via wg-easy, running alongside everything else on a London droplet without falling over.

WireGuard, Docker, Linux

Recent Supporters

1 recruiter (2 minutes ago)
"Saw your profile. Are you open to a React role?"
Anonymous (1 hour ago)
"Wish you the best, Walter. Great uptime."
Skyler (yesterday)
"I don't know where all these commits are coming from."
Hank S. (3 days ago)
"Looked at your repos. Nothing suspicious. Nothing at all."
S. Goodman (last week)
"Better call Walter. Available for consulting."

Every Offer Helps

Full time, contract, or a coffee chat. No amount is too small (well, some amounts are).

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