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The gratitude subscriptions, 2024

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At the beginning of the 2024, I decided to subscribe virtually to some services or people that I use or follow during the year. I’m done that with monthly donations, like Spotify: every month a different person, application, service, or podcast. I used this way to give back something that I received, that be worth much more of my two coins. It was a contribution, a form of thanksgiving. It’s a way to demonstrate my gratitude: I know that it’s not enough, but I tried to support many recipients as possible.

This is my donations list for 2024. I’ll sure continue in the 2025, and — I hope — in the following years. I share this in order that even you can appreciate what I appreciate.

Some gifts are referred to Italian people. You’ll understand that, being a native speaker, reading and listening a lot in Italian, it was inevitable.

  • January. €12 to Antonio Dini for his newsletter Mostly Weekly (in Italian) about tech, multimedia, books, travels, and other curious stuff. I have followed Antonio for years and I appreciate his stoic and constant work. My gratitude.

  • February. €5 to TrenItBot and €5 to Pillole di Bit. The first one is a Telegram bot that I use to follow and provide information about Italian trains: I travel a lot from Naples to Milan to work, and it’s a feature that I can’t live without; the second one it’s the Francesco Tucci’s podcast (in Italian). Francesco is a smart computer technician and popularizer, helpful and able to explain difficult things elementary. My gratitude.

  • March: $11 (~€10) to Bjørn Erik Pedersen, lead developer of Hugo, the framework — that I love — with which this blog is built. I really appreciate his work. My gratitude.

  • April. €10 to Devol, an Italian group of IT professionals. They are engaged in the development of a decentralized, private, secure, and reliable web, and are responsible for maintaining the Mastodon.uno instance, which holds my Mastodon account, and the FressRSS instance, which holds my RSS feed. My gratitude.

  • May. $11 (~€10) to via Martin Tournoij, lead developer of GoatCounter, a simple analytics platform, without trackings and privacy focused. It is no longer used in this blog. My gratitude.

  • June. €10 to Guerre di Rete, the precious newsletter of Carola Freidiani about cybersecurity and technology. There is an English newsletter too. My gratitude.

  • July. $11 (~€10) to James Panther, lead developer of Congo, the Hugo theme that I used for my blog. It’s beautiful. My gratitude.

  • August. €10 to Paolo Attivissimo, a journalist and science popularizer, for his Italian podcast Il Disinformatico, that I have listened to for years. My gratitude.

  • September. $12 (~€11) to Manuel Moreale, for is hard work to spreading the pleasure to have a blog, ant for his People & Blog project. My gratitude.

  • October. $11 (~€10) to Leandro Facchinetti, lead developer of Kill the Newsletter!, the service that I use to read my subscribed newsletters in my RSS client. My gratitude.

  • November. $11 (~€10) to the Internet Archive, to support the immense goal to save our collective memory of the Internet. My gratitude.

  • December. $10 (~€9.50) to Alex Rodionov, lead developer of Maccy, the best clipboard manager for macOS I’ve ever used. My gratitude.

I had would make other donations to other initiatives, but a lot of them don’t accept them (as DuckDuckGo), or I have subscribed to their services.

I don’t know the next year which people or services I’ll support, but I know that I’ll continue this “gratitude subscriptions”. Thanks to all.