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Niklas Haas

haasn
Germany

Working primarily on FOSS multimedia (mpv, libplacebo, VLC). I also contribute occasional patches to various other projects on GitHub, and file issues to the best of my ability otherwise.

Check my GitHub profile for a rough overview, I suppose. I'm clearly not good at summarizing the work I do, mostly because I have a habit of working on whatever happens to interest me at the time. I honestly sort of assume that anybody interested in sponsoring me is already familiar with my work, although I realize that this is exactly the wrong assumption I should be making when writing a profile for myself. Oh well.

I also dump pseudo-philosophical nonsense onto my personal blog.

5 sponsors are funding haasn’s work.

@haasn

If I hit this goal, I will be able to start shifting my work away from the VideoLAN ecosystem and work on expanding libplacebo for its own sake, as well as integrating into other projects. In particular, I plan on replacing mpv's `vo_gpu` by a video renderer based on libplacebo.

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@toofar

Featured work

  1. mpv-player/mpv

    🎥 Command line video player

  2. haasn/libplacebo

    Official mirror of libplacebo

  3. haasn/units

    Calculations with type-safe physical units

    Haskell
  4. haasn/interpolation-samples

    Reference videos and samples for testing and understanding interpolation in mpv

  5. haasn/gentoo-conf

    My own gentoo configuration files, for backup and other purposes

    Shell 71
  6. haasn/hsbooru

    *booru scraper in Haskell

    Haskell 12

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26% towards $100 per month goal

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Every little bit helps \o/

(Although realistically, $1/month is basically just a token gesture)

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In any case, apparently GitHub sponsors doesn't let you type your own amount so I'm just going to add an exponentially ascending list of tiers, to get good coverage of an unknown probability distribution.

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Powers of two are nice numbers, after all. Seems reasonable to go with them.

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That being said, I kinda wonder how high I should go. On the one hand, putting tiers far beyond the realm of what's realistic gives the impression that I'm overvaluing myself, which reflects negatively on my character and thus gives people less of a reason to want to support me.

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But on the other hand, due to how human psychology works, I should add at least a few tiers above whatever I expect people would be willing to choose, simply to avoid giving people the generally uncomfortable feeling that they're spending a maximal amount of money on a thing.

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Or to put it another way, if there's something even more expensive available, people generally feel better about spending the amount of money that they're spending, because it seems like "less" in comparison to what they didn't pick.

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And at the end of the day, there are, of course, people who will go for the most expensive option just because it's the most expensive, no further considerations. So it's a win/win scenario to add more expensive tiers than what I deem realistic.