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Short posts from my social feed.

• 2026-05-09 @ 18:40

  09 May 2026

  I used to have a MacOS menubar app to do this but have been doing it manually for the last several years. I've been needing something like this for a while.

• 2026-05-09 @ 18:06

  09 May 2026

  Hi, I'm Karl Ostendorf — software developer in Osnabrück, Germany, originally from Chicago via 20 years in the German countryside.

• Geziyor Web Crawler

  14 Jun 2019

  Geziyor - a web crawler in Go

• Delta-V

  28 Apr 2019

  Delta-V by Daniel Suarez

• tchap

  23 Apr 2019

  The French government has adopted Riot for official instant messaging

• Mozilla Sync Server

  22 Apr 2019

  Run your own Firefox Sync Server

• Apple Item Tracker

  19 Apr 2019

  Apple rumored to be developing an item tracker

• Mozilla WebThings

  19 Apr 2019

  Mozilla WebThings has been released

• Iota Distributed Ledger

  19 Apr 2019

  Great podcast on the Iota distributed ledger technology and how it differs from blockchain.

• OwnTracks with Gladys

  19 Apr 2019

  Use Gladys as an OwnTracks server

• Headless Chrome Crawler

  07 Apr 2018

  Headless Chrome Crawler - a Javascript crawler using headless Chrome.

• Colly Web Crawler

  05 Apr 2018

  Colly - a web crawler in Go

• Web Scraper in Go

  30 Mar 2018

  soup - a web scraper in Go, similar to BeautifulSoup

• Single Sign-On for Kubernetes

  28 Mar 2018

  Dex - single sign on for Kubernetes CLI clients like kubectl.

• Carlopress

  23 Dec 2017

  Carlopress, a static site generator in Go which I use to build this website

• Prettier Javascript Formatter

  12 Jan 2017

  Prettier - finally a formatter for Javascript like gofmt

• Facebook Mail Servers

  11 Jan 2017

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