Today is Thanksgiving, and one thing I’m thankful for is this open-source community I’m lucky to be a part of.
Around the world and online, I have met folks who build cool things on the web, whether OSS SaaS products or foundational libraries and building blocks for all to use and build on top of. This open sharing of knowledge, code, and tools is one of the reasons why I left the music industry 8 years ago and settled on the Web as my building platform of choice.
This year has been a wild ride, but the combination of being backed by GitHub sponsors (thank you! 💖) and the recent winning of the Clerk Hackathon allows me to sign the Open Source Pledge on behalf of nuqs for the first time this year.
I’m giving a total of 2700€ (USD $3,132) divided equally between the maintainers of dependencies that help me build nuqs, and/or that I use in my client projects:
To that list, we can add the following other OSS sponsorship payments I made during the year:
Open Source Pledge summary for 2025
In total, this amounts to $3,316 paid on behalf of the nuqs project (with myself as the sole “employee”) to OSS maintainers.
Thank you to all of those wonderful folks and organisations, and happy Thanksgiving. 🫶