my gentle attempt to get money out of my clock

As of mid-February, 2022, I am immediately available for software projects, and I usually am available.

UPDATE: I got encouragement, so here is my donation page.

I wrote the clock because it amused me; it certainly was not a paid project. I'm not sure if I do better work because I'm amused or paid. Hopefully we can have both.

My clock got relatively popular at the very end of 2021. I got my January, 2022 hosting bill, and the added cost of this is either zero or very hard to measure as a matter of a few cents. So, if things stay as they are, that's fine. I'm happy people find it useful.

With that said, one potential problem is that I'm having trouble finding a window to reboot my system for the usual updates, which is roughly every 7 - 10 days. People are almost always using the clock during the times I would reboot. I try to avoid this downtime, but I can only do so much with the situation as it is. Also, the clock loses accuracy due to a reboot for a minute or two. The boot itself can take my whole site down for 2 - 3 minutes.

If I got something like $25 a month, I might take the time to move the clock to a separate server. I would run a load balancer or simply turn DNS entries on and off hours before a reboot. That is, I could avoid service and accuracy disruptions.

As to why $25 matters, I describe how I became a starving developer.

I probably won't take the time to put up a donation "button" unless I know someone might use it. I have a web contact form and other means on my resume. If you'd like to make a pledge to encourage me to create a button, please do. Also, what type of button? I assume NFT traders are more into cryto than government fiat, but I'm not certain of that. And, if crypto, what type of wallet is best? I take it that BitCoin and Ether wallets may be interchangeable, for example, but I haven't dug into that, so I'm not sure.