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Mike Lane

mikelane
Portland, OR

Support mikelane's open source workI work on open-source software that prioritizes correctness, clarity, and long-term sustainability.

Most of my projects sit around developer tooling, testing, infrastructure, and systems design. I’m especially interested in areas where small design decisions quietly compound into large operational or cognitive costs over time.

I tend to build tools and libraries that are:

  • Explicit rather than magical
  • Testable by design
  • Opinionated in service of maintainability
  • Informed by real production failures, not hypotheticals

Why sponsorship matters

Sponsorship helps create space for the kind of work that’s increasingly hard to justify on a deadline:

  • Thinking carefully before shipping
  • Writing documentation that actually teaches
  • Maintaining projects long after the initial release
  • Resisting shortcuts that feel fine now but hurt later

I don’t gate code or features behind sponsorship. Open source stays open.

If you’ve found value in my work, my writing, or my approach to engineering problems, your support helps make more of that work possible.

@mikelane

Reaching 10 sponsors would give me consistent space to invest more time in thoughtful open-source work: better documentation, deeper design exploration, and long-term maintenance of the tools I care about. It’s less about the number and more about knowing this work is useful to others.

Featured work

  1. mikelane/reddit-get

    A CLI for getting reddit content. Perfect for using with Obsidian templater

    Python 26
  2. Python 10
  3. mikelane/pytest-test-categories

    Pytest plugin enforcing Google's hermetic testing best practices. Test categorization (small/medium/large), timing limits, resource isolation, and test pyramid validation. No escape hatches.

    Python 8
  4. mikelane/dioxide

    Opinionated, Zero-ceremony, Rust-backed dependency injection for Python

    Python 10
  5. mikelane/previewd

    AI-Powered Kubernetes operator for automatic preview environment management

    Go
  6. mikelane/pytest-gremlins

    Fast-first mutation testing for pytest. Let the gremlins loose, see which ones survive.

    Python 4

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Supporter — $5/month

A simple way to support my open-source work and signal that this style of engineering matters.

  • Sponsor badge on GitHub
  • My genuine appreciation
  • Helps fund maintenance, documentation, and careful iteration

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Sustaining Sponsor — $15/month

For folks who want to more directly support long-term, thoughtful work.

  • Everything in Supporter
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  • Priority attention if you reach out with a question or idea

This helps create uninterrupted time for deeper design and writing.

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Patron — $50/month

For people who want to be a strong backer of my work and values.

  • Everything in Sustaining Sponsor
  • Early visibility into larger ideas and experiments
  • Your name listed (optionally) as a Patron on my Sponsors page

This tier is about belief in the work, not extra perks.