How to Support or Follow Exa's Corner

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You can support Exa's Corner financially through Helcim (direct card/ACH, their preferred option), Patreon, Liberapay, or PayPal, and you can follow or join the community through a bridged Matrix Space and Discord Guild, plus Mastodon, Forgejo, PeerTube, GitHub, and email. These options come from the site's own homepage; the site does not publish specific donation tiers, amounts, or membership benefits, so treat the links as entry points rather than offers with defined terms.

Support options

Exa describes themselves as writing open source code and running free online services full-time, and asks readers to pitch in if they can. The listed methods are:

Method Notes from the site
Helcim (direct card/ACH) Marked as preferred
Patreon Suggested "if you already use it"
Liberapay Suggested "if you already use it"
PayPal Suggested "if you dislike the others"

The site does not state processing fees, recurring vs. one-time options, or what donors receive, so check each platform directly before committing. If you already have a Patreon or Liberapay account, those are the lowest-friction choices; otherwise Helcim is the stated preference.

Join the discussion

Community discussion happens in one bridged space reachable from two entry points:

  • Matrix Space — for Matrix users.
  • Discord Guild — for Discord users.

Because the two are bridged, joining either puts you in the same conversation, so pick the client you already use rather than joining both.

Follow their work elsewhere

The homepage links out to a range of platforms:

  • Code and mods: Forgejo (including source code), GitHub, Codeberg, Modrinth and CurseForge (Minecraft mods).
  • Social and media: Mastodon ("ramblings"), Bluesky, Tumblr, Twitch, YouTube, PeerTube (rare video uploads).
  • Contact: Email (described as reliable but not fast) and Matrix main chat.

For Minecraft-related work specifically, Modrinth and CurseForge are the places to look; for source code, Forgejo and GitHub.

What you're supporting

The site is a personal "digital garden" — a low-friction place for random notes and old blog posts, with a document listing that can mark unread or updated entries. Linked projects include GPIO pinout diagrams for uncommon single-board computers, a colorspace toy, an SCP-style laptop sticker generator, pie-chart SVGs, a web-based Suika Game clone called Welon, a server status page powered by Uptime Kuma, and a Drasl instance (an alternative Minecraft authentication server). They also host or oversee the Sleeping Town community and the Jortage hosting project.

Practical notes

  • The site hot-reloads as pages are edited, so content may change while you read it; last-modified times only appear with JavaScript enabled.
  • The homepage itself flags that a proper project listing is still a TODO, so the linked "random things" are not a complete portfolio.
  • No pricing, login requirements, or account restrictions are stated for any of these services on the page; verify on each platform.