Donation Policy

You are 100% free to read or link to the content of this site with no requirement for any form of donation, we just merely give you a quick and easy way to do so if you want. If you do link to content on this site, please, where you can, let me know, especially if the content I’ve produced is of use to you in your daily life, whether in or out of the world of paid work.

Therefore, if you do choose to make a donation, you can do so directly using the following ways

• UK Debit card direct to one of my banks via Monzo.Me Link
• Paypal - [email protected]
• Direct Bank Transfers via any of my banks
• GitHub Sponsorship via my GitHub Profile
• Certain cryptocurrencies (ask me more about this as the crypto conversation is always interesting)
• Cash, Drinks, Food, Gift Cards, Hugs, Stern & Difficult converstations (ideally in person), Travel offerings like a lift to the shops or a get away to a user group or conference.
• Products to test
  • Anything techy, I am interested being asked if I want to test it.
    • Software
    • Hardware
  • This could be foods, drinks, or anything to help with nutrion & improving aspects of physical & biological health. This can include stuff like Huel (powders, drinks, snacks or the hot & savoury pouches especially the Thai Green Curry), Nurishment or other meal replacement drinks & powders, or any snacks or coffees, especially if you like them & think I might too, with some of these being on the Amazon list below
• Anything from off of this Amazon Gift list
  • Note those are just suggestions, from things that I would be getting myself or giving to others
  • Using Amazon for the list saves me making another similar list here or other places
  • It also allows for sending things direct to me, without you needing to ask me for my address
  • You should build a list like this yourself, even if it’s just for your own tracking.
  • If you see something on there and can get it cheaper than the cost on Amazon - perhaps because you use Ali Express or Temu or local supplier & I’d be interested in knowing just how big the difference in price can be.

If you can help me out though you can via these methods that would be a great help, and whilst I don’t expect for it to happen, I do keep track of (just about) everthing that I have received over the years.

Whilst I am currently unable to in the way that I would like, I have previously paid them back directly, or more often than not, paid things forward (mostly due to being asked to instead of paying things back) & in almost all cases I will do both where I can, and where I’ve been asked to pay it forward, I pick charities to make either one off or regular contributions.

Over the years, I have & still donate my time towards many tech communities, mostly the PowerShell community, which I still do as a member of the Cmdlets, Engine and Interactive UX Working Groups and PowerShell.org.uk which I am one of many that over the years has helped with some/not all of the organising work, for more information on the UK community please look forward to seeing the refresh of the UK Community site later this year!

I was a Volunteer Vaccinator for St John Ambulance during the Pandemic, who I’ve donated both time and money to in the past and will do again in future, along with many other communities over the years too!

It is in my DNA to give when I can, both time and money not just because I know how stressful it can be to be without, and how stressful it can be to face homelessness, or other stresses in life, but because I truly value the benefits that sharing time, skills and finances to those that need it can and does bring to those that need it and to those that can and choose to do so.

You can as part of this donate directly towards the site’s maintenance and ongoing improvement, which includes sister sites like mhasl.me & dumb-question.info the UK PowerShell Community as well as towards enabling me more often than not to reduce wasted time allowing me to spend that time either actively working on currently planned content or towards additional future content, including being able to further support others, whether it be via donations/gifts/mentoring/subscriptions or what I really would like to do, is like the [PowerShell.org OnRamp program(https://www.powershellsummit.org/onramp/) does each year.

I would also really enjoy helping others start their own blogging journey, and have successfully helped many get started on this journey. Get in touch if this is something you’d like me to help you with at all.

I also would love to be in a position where I could plan out a multi year’s plan of content, and whilst I could look at authoring some/all of it myself, I would love instead to get others involved and importantly pay them for writing these bits of content whether they be for sites I manage & maintain, or sites that they are managing and maintaining. This would be even better if in future giving multiple authors a very simple way to have their own section in a single end article.

All of this of course, enables additional research and development, as well as helping me gain and use suitable tooling, technology and importantly the knowledge locked inside heads like mine to achieve so much more than I can at this time.

It also helps me in plan for ongoing or future costs as needed, including moving providers and making things cheaper where I can because things like reoccuring DNS Hosting costs are a regular annoyance (especially whilst not earning an income) & makes me want to set up my own DNS Hosting Provider and migrate everything across to that.

It can also go towards helping with some of the site design and accessibility issues that I’d like to improve upon like in the theme used for some of these sites which you can see is something that I’d like to focus on in this repository.

So, like I said at the beginning of this page, you are 100% free to read or link to the content of this site with no requirement for any form of donation, we just merely give you a quick and easy way to do so if you want.

If you’ve read this far and have any feedback at all, then please feel free to fill in this form. I happily read & take all feedback that I get provided on board, whether it gets actioned or not.