Solo dev • Founder • 31+ years in IT • Privacy advocate • Homelab & Cloudflare builder • Shipping small, single-file, privacy-first tools

• File Viewer family — 13 fast, single-file, offline viewers: PDF, Word, Excel/ODS, PowerPoint, Publisher, EPUB, Markdown, HTML, data (JSON/YAML/CSV/XML/TOML), logs, .eml email, X.509 certificates, and images (down to TIFF, QOI & farbfeld). No build step, nothing uploaded — ever. Repos: file-viewer.us is the hub; each viewer lives in its own repo (pdf · docx · sheets · image · cert · …)

• TextWizard — browser-local text & code tools: case converters, diff, analyzers, and more. MIT, zero dependencies, nothing leaves the tab. Repo: textwizard-tools

• Wizard apps & extensions — ResizeWizard (anchored browser-window resizing, live on the Chrome Web Store), CopyWizard (smart form mapper — copy form fields across sites with reusable profiles), and UploadWizard (white-label client file-upload SaaS: multi-tenant Astro SSR, custom domains, passwordless auth). Free + Pro tiers via Stripe.

• IP Cow — privacy-first IP, DNS & email diagnostics, running since 2005. Rebuilt in 2026 as an Astro site + API on dedicated Hetzner hosts, with separate IPv4-only and IPv6-only probe endpoints. The reusable core is MIT: ipcow.com-tools (@ipcow/tools-core + ipcow-probe).

• MyKK — a single-file browser start page with 10+ widgets (weather, stocks, RSS, calendar, bookmarks, ambient sounds, more). Vanilla JS, zero deps, Pro tier via Chrome extension + Stripe. Joined by favorites.mykk.us, a KV-backed speed-dial on Cloudflare Workers. Repos: mykk.us-dashboard · mykk.us · favorites.mykk.us

• tgwab-web — pnpm + Astro 5 monorepo powering the identity fleet (hub, blog, dev portfolio, family, ham radio) from one shared design system (@tgwab/design-tokens + @tgwab/ui). Cloudflare Pages, no Google Fonts.

• The estate — the ops layer behind all of the above: Cloudflare Workers and scheduled jobs for job-liveness alerting, uptime probes, notification relay (Discord + email, DMARC/TLS-RPT ingestion), and transactional mail, governed by a shared standards repo. Mostly private by design; the mail Worker is public: mailer.

Languages

Frameworks & Site Generators

Platforms & Infrastructure

Services & APIs

Tools

• de-google.us — a plain-English guide to limiting Big Tech without blowing up your life. Astro 5 + Tailwind 4 + Pagefind.

• tomatick — 🍅 macOS menu-bar timer, stopwatch, alarm & pomodoro with timestamped history (rumps + PyObjC).

• cheatsheets — clean, privacy-first developer cheatsheets as web, PDF & Markdown.

• github-tree-browser — single-file, client-only GitHub repo tree browser for GitHub Pages.

• default-web-pages — a recreation archive of web-server default pages: Microsoft IIS (1995–2022) plus nginx, Apache, Caddy & friends.

• Welcome Message — beautiful Linux MOTD with fastfetch, weather, and system metrics. Multi-distro, multi-shell, idempotent installer.

• Scripts — practical Bash scripts and helpers across Linux systems, Raspberry Pi devices, and self-hosted environments.

• Unbound Homelab — production-ready redundant DNS infrastructure for home labs. DNSSEC, health monitoring, automated config management on Raspberry Pi.

• Email-to-Discord Worker — Cloudflare Worker that routes inbound emails to Discord channels with HTML→Markdown conversion.

• GSA Manager — club/association management app with membership tracking, inventory, and payment processing. Active since 2007.

• IMDb Movie File Fixer — auto-rename movies, fix grammar, check IMDb, handle duplicates.

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Products & tools

Family, hobby & client sites

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