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Feeding The Machine

Notes on tech, horror, and the systems that run us.

Code

Make it go.

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Open source

Things I have built that others might find useful. Most of these exist because I could not find a tool that worked the way I wanted, which I suppose is the usual reason.

Project What it is Built with License
posse Reads this site’s JSON Feed and posts to my Bluesky. Keeps no state file: it asks the timeline what is already there, so re-running it after a failed deploy is safe. Working to add more platforms soon. TypeScript MIT
RainWrangler A local-only Flutter app that talks directly to a RainMachine irrigation controller over its on-device REST API. No cloud account, no vendor middleman, no telemetry — just the phone and the controller. Dart, Flutter MIT
Markdown WYSIWYG for gedit Modal inline WYSIWYG markdown editing inside gedit 50. Built because every other markdown editor I tried had opinions about workspaces and knowledge management when all I wanted was to open a file and write in it. C, GTK MIT

Not open source

Non-OSS things that I have also built and/or run that might be of interest.

Project What it is
mailall.us Email forwarding for families, co-parents and elder caregivers. One shared address fans out to everyone who needs the message, so the school, the club or the care team can keep writing to a single place and nobody gets left off.
Talvero Coming Soon