Don’t buy me a coffee

Those “Buy Me a Coffee” links have upset the anonymous Hakkerblog, who finds them annoying. » No, I won’t buy you a coffee Gordon Mclean and Michael Harley have defended them as mostly harmless. » Yes, buy me a coffee » Re: No, I won’t buy you a coffee I have never monetized Newsonaut and never will, but that’s mainly because of lessons learned from Thriftmac, my other site that specializes in free Mac apps. Back in the day, I was all in with Google Ads and anything else that might make a dollar. In my best ever month, I got a cheque for about $200 from Google. Buy Me a Coffee didn’t exist back then, but I would have used it if it did. At first it was fun, even exhilarating, but after awhile I got burned out. I realized that as a wage, $200 came to maybe a couple of dollars an hour. I had to keep the engagement going — constantly thinking up new ideas, constantly finding interesting links. When I finally crashed, the blog part of Thriftmac was ripped out and it became just a fancy…