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Kyle MacLean Smith

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Salish Archipelago, 2nd & 1st Big Isles South

Hi, I'm Kyle. 🐸

Thank you for looking at my GitHub Sponsors page! 💖

about

I've been working for circa a decade now woodshed inventing novel "first principle" non-halting math & computer patterns. I've done it as a labour of love and for posterity.

You can learn more about me on:

the present

I've made exciting contributions to science. You can learn more about these contributions on my alchemy repo.

Sponsorship will validate my scientific contributions as well as provide support so that I can continue to refine and publish my contributions as well as invest in educational initiatives.

Plus, it's time to have kids! As such, I can't continue to work for passion only. I need to focus on supporting my family. However, I believe this work is important to society and I would love to keep developing it as fast as possible but with community support this time around.

the future

I'm now bringing my inventions to the open source market. I hope sponsorship can help pay for my market entry costs.

  1. The main reason I have high market entry costs is that I decided to patent my cornerstone software invention, the Hierarchical Script Database.

It might seem counterproductive to patent software that is fundamentally designed to be open source and transparent.

However, given my background in IP law, especially the Canadian music publishing & royalties industry, I believe a patent is the best way to be a good shepherd for my software invention as it matures past me into a prosperous, robust open source community with all kinds of wonderful derivations far beyond my abilities alone.

  1. An additional reason I have high market entry costs is that I'm passionate about finding a way we can respect open source software authors as much as we respect song authors. I'm actively investing in helping set the groundwork for that opportunity.

I hope to not only monetize the open source software I author but to also enable others to do the same with the open source software they author.

The music industry found a way to keep radio airplay free for consumption while also compensating authors. I believe we can do the same for open source!

My goal: { "author": "opt-in for revenue", "consumer": "zero cost" }.

thank you GitHub!

I think GitHub's Sponsors program is a brilliant { "author": "opt-in for revenue", "consumer": "opt-in for cost" } initiative along the way to better respecting our open source software authors.

100% of the money you send through GitHub Sponsors goes to the developer. They even cover payment processing fees. That's amazing!

I'm very grateful to be a part of this program. 💖

Best of health and happiness y'all,
Kyle

examples

Here's a YouTube demo of an app that retains its Hierarchical Script Database kernel & structure during runtime:

SeedTreeDB programmable SMS "2020-PAGER" demo

Here's the 3^2 4^2 = 5^2 Pythagorean triple as two metal-Pythag rectangles:

  • Given a = 3; b = 4, x = ( c - b ) / a = 1 / 3:
  • Given a = 4; b = 3, x = ( c - b ) / a = 1 / 2:

1 sponsor has funded bestape’s work.

@bestape

I've worked for a long time without much validation from other people. Such was the nature of my journey. Now that "I've returned with gifts," it'd mean the world to me to know someone out there is excited to receive them. At this stage, more than none is a big achievement! 💖

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Featured work

  1. bestape/alchemy

    Generate any a-by-( b c ) finite rectangle SVG containing potentially Infinitely many a-by-( 2 * b ) finite rectangles animated along a number line of ( ( c - b ) / a )^n scale symmetry.

    HTML 30
  2. bestape/.0.sh

    Dotfiles for a new Linux machine.

    Emacs Lisp
  3. bestape/heroku.node.js-urlForward

    A smart forwarding service for heroku deploy.

    JavaScript

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