Martin Donath
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Martin Donath
@squidfunk
Founder of @zensical, creator of Material for MkDocs
zensical.org
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    Martin Donath
    @squidfunk
    Jun 24, 2022
    😱🙏Wow! Thanks, @github!
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    Martin Donath
    @squidfunk
    Jun 15, 2024
    Wow! @Microsoft is now sponsoring Material for MkDocs 🥰
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    Martin Donath
    @squidfunk
    Dec 28, 2023
    🤯 @AWSOpen just sponsored Material for MkDocs! The AWS Open Source Software Fund donated $10k to the project! We've started building a small but amazing team around the project and contributions like this help us sustain our efforts pushing the project to new heights! ❤️❤️❤️
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    Martin Donath
    @squidfunk
    Sep 19, 2022
    Material for MkDocs just hit $ 100k/year 😱 That's absolutely unbelievable. I think it's safe to say that with product-market fit and a well-designed release strategy, it's possible to earn a living in Open Source. 1/🧵
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    Martin Donath
    @squidfunk
    Jan 8, 2021
    TIL you can view Node CPU profiles in Visual Studio Code 😱 1. Run node --cpu-prof file.js 2. Open *.cpuprofile in VS Code There you go:
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    Martin Donath
    @squidfunk
    Jul 6, 2023
    🥳 Material for MkDocs reached its next funding goal! Thanks to our awesome sponsors, the following features will now be free as part of our community edition: ✏️ Blog plugin 🇨🇳 Chinese search support ⭕️ Annotations 🧭 Navigation icons ✂️ Navigation pruning 🤨 Navigation status
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    Martin Donath
    @squidfunk
    Mar 28, 2023
    We're super proud to welcome @FastAPI by the wonderful @tiangolo as the first silver sponsor of Material for MkDocs! FastAPI is an amazing Python framework to build lightning fast APIs with a world-class developer experience! fastapi.tiangolo.com
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    Martin Donath
    @squidfunk
    Apr 5, 2023
    GitHub eradicated ~$240k/m in sponsorships in 28d An analysis 🧵
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    Martin Donath
    @squidfunk
    Sep 2, 2023
    Bloomberg just gave a $10k grant to MkDocs!
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    Tech At Bloomberg
    @TechAtBloomberg
    Sep 1, 2023
    Replying to @TechAtBloomberg
    We're also announcing the Q2 2023 @Bloomberg #FOSS Fund grant recipients: -- @MkDocsProject -- #OpenSSH -- @PostgreSQL Congratulations!! Each of these #opensource projects has received a $10K grant to support the people & communities who maintain them #MkDocs #Postgres
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    Martin Donath
    @squidfunk
    Dec 15, 2023
    🥳 Material for MkDocs is one of the winners of Google's Open Source Peer Bonus Program 2023
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    Google Open Source Peer Bonus program announces second group of 2023 winners
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    Martin Donath
    @squidfunk
    Jan 8, 2023
    2022 has been an incredible year for Material for MkDocs. We increased our monthly funding from $4k to over $10k, and growth is still looking insane. I'm so glad that I'm allowed to work on something that I personally believe in, building something I think is important. 1/🧵
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    Martin Donath
    @squidfunk
    Dec 6, 2022
    🎊 Important milestone: $10k/month Material for MkDocs just reached $10k/month in sponsorships! This means the new 🔍 search will be released into the community edition, including better offline support. Expect a beta release in the coming days! squidfunk.github.io/mkdocs-materia…
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    Martin Donath
    @squidfunk
    Apr 19, 2022
    🎉 Material for MkDocs has a new landing page! I'm super excited to finally reveal the results of the past weeks of hard work, check it out here: squidfunk.github.io/mkdocs-materia… A thread 🧵 1/5
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    Martin Donath
    @squidfunk
    Feb 16, 2024
    Thanks to my awesome sponsors, I'm all bootstrapped – no investors to please. I can just write useful software every day, trying hard to make the lives of thousands of other individuals easier and more joyful. Life is great ❤️
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