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Apps and tools for makers, builders, curious people, and nerds.

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Built by the same person who runs the shop.

Flagship
The Big Four

The full-featured platforms — accounts, sync, and everything that comes with it.

MakerManifest
MakerManifest

A platform for makers — organize your projects, track your builds, and share your work. Built by a maker, for makers.

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FairKeep
FairKeep

Vendor event tracker SaaS — log events, track revenue, manage expenses, and sync with Etsy and Shopify. The full-featured platform for serious craft fair vendors. Requires an account.

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KnotDo
KnotDo

A task management app with multiple views — list, Kanban, Gantt, calendar, and timeline. Supports team collaboration, offline use, data import/export, and a full REST API. Currently in private beta (invite only).

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NoteSmith
NoteSmith

Real-time collaborative documents with built-in team chat, task tracking, and version history. Requires an account. A modern replacement for Salesforce Quip.

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Maker & Workshop
Shop Tools

Reference tools for the bench — materials, settings, and specs when you need them.

CNC Feeds & Speeds
CNC Feeds & Speeds Calculator

Enter your material, bit type, number of flutes — get recommended feeds and speeds for your CNC router. No more guessing, no more burnt edges.

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Glowforge Settings
Glowforge Materials & Settings Utility

Track Glowforge laser settings by material. Community-sourced data from manufacturer specs and forums — organized so you can actually find it when you need it.

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BoxWright
BoxWright

Type your box's inside dimensions and get a laser-cuttable folding pattern. Pick material thickness and closure style, then download a print-ready SVG with black cut lines and blue score lines — no CAD, no account. Works with Glowforge, xTool, OMTech, and LightBurn.

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The Janky Wood Database
The Janky Wood Database

Wood species reference cobbled together from various sources. Identify woods, compare properties, find the right material for the job. It's janky. It works.

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Woodworking Calculator

Board feet, material quantities, measurement conversions, and workshop math — all in one place. A wood-themed calculator built for the bench, not the boardroom.

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Network & Lookup
Enter Something, Get Answers

Intelligence tools — put in a number, IP, or airport code and get back everything worth knowing.

GotInfo
GotInfo — Network Intel

Instantly see everything your browser exposes about your connection: IPv4/IPv6, geolocation, reverse DNS, WebRTC leaks, browser fingerprint, ASN, and more. No account, no logging — just answers.

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foneinfo.us
foneinfo.us

US phone number intelligence. Enter any number, area code, or NPA-NXX prefix and get carrier name, line type, rate center, LATA, OCN type, and full area code history — powered by NANPA public data. No signup, no logging.

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AirportCode
AirportCode

Look up any airport by IATA or ICAO code, or by name. Shows location, elevation, runways, frequencies, live METAR weather, TAF forecasts, and flight category (VFR/IFR). No account required.

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radioref.us
radioref.us

Frequency & radio intelligence — search across scanner frequencies, ham bands, FRS/GMRS channels, 10-codes, Q-codes, and phonetic alphabets. Offline-first PWA, installs to your phone, no account and no logging.

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namingConventions.dev
namingConventions.dev

Cloud resource naming convention generator for Azure, AWS, and Google Cloud. Enter your company, pick a resource type and region, and get a valid name built on each provider's live naming rules and abbreviations. Export your convention as CSV or a Markdown guide — saved in your browser only.

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f150mods.us
F-150 Mods

FORScan code lookup for every Ford F-150, 1997–2026. Search 95 community-documented As-Built mods by model year, module and powertrain (EcoBoost, PowerBoost, Lightning), each with its sources and risk level, plus step-by-step guides to back up, connect and program safely.

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Sky & Science
Look Up

Space, weather, and things worth going outside for.

imgoing2.space
imgoing2.space

Live rocket launch tracker and space tourism guide. Real-time countdowns for every upcoming launch — SpaceX, Blue Origin, Rocket Lab, and more — plus a breakdown of every commercial spaceflight provider and what it costs to get a ticket.

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Aurora Borealis Predictor
Aurora Borealis Predictor

Check the KP index and see how likely you are to spot Northern Lights from your location tonight. Because some things are worth going outside for.

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Rainfall Tracker Pro
Rainfall Tracker Pro

Track rainfall amounts and predictions by location. Built for gardeners who want to know if they actually need to water today — no meteorology degree required.

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TideRef
TideRef

A live tide clock for your location. See the current tide, countdowns to the next high and low, today's tide table, a 48-hour tide curve, and 30-day history — all from NOAA data. For beachcombers, boaters, surfers, and tidepoolers.

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SkyRef
SkyRef

A live star map of the sky above you right now. 9,096 stars, all 88 constellations, the planets and Moon, satellites tracked in real time, and whichever meteor showers are currently active — drawn on a full-sky dome you can zoom, pan, and scrub through time. Includes a red night-vision mode for actually using it in the dark.

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VendorTools Suite
Craft Fair & Event Tools

A suite of free tools built for craft fair vendors, market sellers, and anyone running a table at an event. No accounts, no subscriptions — just tools that work.

Vendor Tools Hub
Vendor Tools Hub

The home base for the VendorTools suite — a free collection of craft fair vendor tools in one place. Start here.

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FairFinder
FairFinder

Discover craft fairs, farmers markets, and vendor events near you. Browse by state and type, then click to track applications directly in FairKeep.

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Pricing Calculator

Calculate product prices based on materials, labor, overhead, and desired markup. Know your numbers before you set your prices.

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Booth Break-Even

Is that craft fair worth the booth fee? Enter your booth cost, average sale, and margin — find out exactly how many sales you need to break even.

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Cash & Change Helper

Make change quickly at busy markets — enter the price and payment amount, get exact change in seconds. No more fumbling at the table.

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Card Fee Reconciler

Compare card processing fees across Square, Stripe, PayPal, and others. See exactly what each platform costs you so you can pick the one that keeps more money in your pocket.

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Booth Packing List

Pre-event packing checklist built for craft fair vendors. Never forget your card reader, tablecloth, or change bag again — customize your list and check off as you pack.

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Inventory Counter

Track pre- and post-event inventory counts. Know what sold, what's left, and what to restock before the next market. Simple tally, no account required.

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QR Code Generator

Generate QR codes for your payment links, Venmo, website, or social profiles. Print and display at your booth so customers can pay instantly.

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Price Tag Maker

Create printable price tags for your craft fair booth. Customize the look, add your product names and prices, print on standard label sheets. Professional-looking tags in minutes.

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Reverse Sales Tax Calculator

Know what you collected in taxes? Work backwards to find the pre-tax sale amount. Built for vendors and market sellers who need clean numbers fast.

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Sales Tax Owed

Compute sales tax owed by location and sale amount. Quick and simple — because the IRS is neither.

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Creator Tools
YouTube, Photo & Video

Tools for creators — protect your channel data, and edit photos and videos right in the browser.

ChannelBackup
ChannelBackup
Python · Windows & Mac · The New Janky Workshop

Back up your entire YouTube channel — videos, metadata, playlists, thumbnails, and comments — automatically, every day. Free desktop app. Your data stays local. No accounts, no subscriptions.

Fotonaut
Browser · Free · No account

A free photo editor that runs entirely in your browser — crop, adjust, filters, text and stickers, AI background removal, retouch and collages. Your photos never leave your device.

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Vidnaut
Browser · Free · No account

A free video editor that runs entirely in your browser — multi-track timeline, trim, split and arrange your phone clips, then export MP4 for Reels, TikTok, Shorts or YouTube. Nothing is uploaded.

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Color ID
Color ID

Pick any color from an image, convert between HEX, RGB, and HSL, and generate complementary color schemes. For designers who think in pixels.

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Utilities
Everything Else

Useful tools that didn't fit anywhere else — but belong somewhere.

Donation Value Estimator

Estimate the IRS fair market value of donated clothing, furniture, electronics, and more. Build a tax deduction list, export to CSV, and import previous lists. No account required.

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ZoneSync
ZoneSync

Your world, in sync. Track current time across multiple cities and timezones at once. Use the Time Shifter to plan calls and meetings across zones — drag, reorder, install as a PWA. No data collected.

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Color Temp
Color Temp

The complete light color temperature reference. Understand Kelvin ratings — soft white, daylight, warm white and everything between — with visual light samples, zone explanations, and room-by-room recommendations.

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GitHub Projects

Windows utilities, desktop tools, and experiments — all open source, all built to scratch a specific itch.

Chameleon
PowerShell · Windows

Auto-switch your Wi-Fi the moment an external monitor or dock attaches — and switch back when you undock. A system-tray utility that adapts to wherever you plug in, with a portable USB build and a start-with-Windows toggle.

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Nitpicker
Python · Windows

Sync the brightness of every monitor from one tray slider — laptop panel and external monitors alike — with per-monitor offsets, per-monitor contrast over DDC/CI, and optional automatic day/night dimming. (A nit is the unit of screen brightness.)

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CoolTR
Python · Windows

A modern, dark-themed Windows network diagnostic tool combining live MTR-style tracerouting, continuous ping monitoring, and deep network info lookups in a single desktop GUI.

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BluFang
PowerShell · Windows

Bluetooth device renamer & inspector for Windows 11. Rename friendly names, view signal strength, battery, BT version, manufacturer, and device class — all the info Windows hides.

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EnvForge
Python · Windows

A Windows GUI for managing User and System environment variables side by side — with drill-down support for multi-value variables like PATH. What the built-in dialog should have been.

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HTopWin
Python · Windows

htop for Windows — a rich, interactive terminal process manager with real-time CPU, memory, and disk stats. Includes remote SSH monitoring so you can watch any box from your desk.

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KillSwitch
Python · Windows

A Windows system tray tool that instantly kills messaging, video conferencing, screen-sharing, VPN, and social apps with a single double-click. Panic button for your taskbar.

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PlainText
Python · Windows

A Windows system-tray app that monitors your clipboard for rich text (HTML/RTF) and offers to strip it to plain text automatically. Paste clean, every time.

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PlainText for Claude
Python · Windows

A tray utility that squishes multi-line, indented AI output into a single clean line. Click the icon or press a hotkey — paste-ready in an instant.

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ExplorerLargerer
Python · Windows

A photo browser that blows past Windows Explorer's thumbnail size limit. Browse any folder in a scrollable grid at up to 1000px thumbnails — with a live slider to dial in exactly the size you want.

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ChannelBackup
ChannelBackup-Desktop
Python · Windows & Mac

The open-source desktop app behind channelbackup.app. Backs up your entire YouTube channel — videos, metadata, playlists, thumbnails, and comments — automatically, every day. Your data stays local.

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SpoolMedic
Python · Windows

A lightweight Windows system tray utility that resets the Print Spooler service and clears stuck print jobs on demand. Everything your printer needs — in a single click, no reboot required.

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LinkGuard
Python · Windows

A Windows system tray app that silently monitors URLs — from your clipboard and every link you click — and warns you before a phishing page can load.

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SharePointYankee
PowerShell · C# · SQL · JS

A collection of scripts and code snippets from sharepointyankee.com — covering SharePoint, Azure, Microsoft 365, and more. Over a decade of admin and dev work, all in one repo.

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ClaudeTray
Python · Windows

Windows system tray monitor for Claude Code usage. Shows rate-limit percentages like a battery meter, with a quick popup and full web dashboard for usage history and session tracking.

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Copilot HUD
JavaScript · VS Code

VS Code status bar HUD for your GitHub Copilot quota. Click it for a dashboard: ring gauges for premium requests, chat, and completions, a burn-rate forecast that tells you if you'll run out before the monthly reset, a usage chart for the billing cycle, and alerts at 75% and 90%.

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Copilot Auto Model
JavaScript · VS Code

When GitHub Copilot Chat is set to Auto, it picks the model for you and never says which. This VS Code extension puts the answer in the status bar. It reads the model from Copilot Chat’s own log after each chat turn and ignores Copilot’s small background requests, so the display stays on the model that answered you. Hover for the chat mode, status and time.

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Deployment Watch
JavaScript · Claude Code

Claude Code plugin that follows a deployment you already started until it finishes, then checks the live app: HTTP status and content, the running commit from a version endpoint, and the container's image tag over SSH. Calls out when the site is up but still serving the old release. Read-only — it never redeploys, cancels or rolls back. Coolify supported today.

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Session Relay
JavaScript · Claude Code

Claude Code plugin for picking work back up after a restart, reboot or /clear. It checkpoints each git worktree — branch, HEAD, changed files, and what was planned, attempted, completed or verified — then on resume tells you what still holds, what changed and what is uncertain. Links your NoteSmith notes and KnotDo tasks instead of copying them, and never re-runs a push, deploy or external write without asking.

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Identity Guard
JavaScript · Claude Code

Claude Code plugin for people who juggle personal, company and client accounts. Before Claude commits, pushes or changes Azure, it re-checks the Git author, push destination, GitHub or SSH identity, and Azure tenant and subscription against a per-project profile. Matches run, mismatches are refused, and anything it can’t verify waits for a one-time override with a logged reason. It never switches accounts or touches tokens.

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NoteSmith for VS Code
JavaScript · VS Code

Link a NoteSmith folder — or a local-only encrypted vault — to any project and browse, create and edit its notes as Markdown right in the Explorer. Ctrl+S saves straight back to NoteSmith or into the vault on disk.

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KnotDo for VS Code
JavaScript · VS Code

Link a KnotDo list to a VS Code workspace and work your tasks without leaving the editor. Tick tasks off, set due dates and priority, and turn a TODO comment into a task that jumps back to the line of code it came from. Shared lists can be scoped to one project by title prefix.

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Evidence Capture
PowerShell · Claude Code

Claude Code plugin for documenting client implementation work. Grabs the Windows clipboard screenshot the instant you ask, into an immutable staged copy, lets you confirm it, then files it under the step it proves — with a Markdown link and a SHA-256 evidence trail you can re-check later. Local only.

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As-Built Companion
JavaScript · Claude Code

Claude Code plugin that keeps as-built documentation honest. Hand it a git diff, deployment result, read-back or test result and it proposes one coordinated update across your architecture doc, configuration guide, change log and implementation plan — every value checked against the evidence, every claim capped at planned, deployed or verified as the evidence allows. Shows the diff and open questions, writes only what you approve. Markdown only.

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Deliverable Gate
JavaScript · Claude Code

Claude Code plugin that answers “exactly what will be published, where, and what checks passed?” before client work leaves the workspace. It builds an isolated snapshot from an explicit allowlist at a pinned commit, writes a hashed manifest, and checks that candidate for secrets (gitleaks), correspondence and local settings, broken links, stale generated docs, LFS pointers and destination identity. Every result is PASS, FAIL or INCOMPLETE. It publishes to GitHub only with your approval of that exact snapshot and destination. Report-only by default.

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BTSpeakerManager
Python · Windows

System tray app that keeps Bluetooth speakers alive and connected. Auto-reconnects, sets default audio device, plays silent keep-alive tones, and falls back to wired output on disconnect.

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Extensions

Browser extensions built for the tools we already make. Install manually now — Chrome and Firefox store releases coming soon.

MakerManifest
Manual Install · Chrome & Firefox Soon

Add products to your MakerManifest gear lists directly from any product page — Amazon, Etsy, anywhere. Browse, click, saved. No more copy-paste into a spreadsheet.

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GotInfo — Site Intel
Manual Install · Chrome Store Soon

Your IP, WHOIS, DNS, SSL certs, security headers, subnet calculator, and privacy intel for any site you visit — all in one click. Powered by gotinfo.net.

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NoteSmith — Web Clipper
Manual Install · Chrome Store Soon

Clip any page — or just the part you highlighted — straight into a NoteSmith note. Keeps the headings, lists, code and images, leaves the nav and cookie banners behind, and files it in the folder you choose. Powered by notesmith.io.

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Editor & Claude Code Plugins

VS Code extensions that bring our apps into the editor. Plain JavaScript, no build step, MIT licensed — install the .vsix from each project's latest release. Claude Code plugins load straight from their GitHub checkout.

KnotDo for VS Code
VSIX · Marketplace Soon

Link a KnotDo list to a workspace and work its tasks from the editor — tick off, add, edit and reprioritise. Select a line or a // TODO: and turn it into a task that jumps back to the code. Powered by knotdo.app.

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NoteSmith Notes
VSIX · Marketplace Soon

Link a NoteSmith folder — or a local-only encrypted vault — to a project, then browse, create and edit its notes as Markdown right in VS Code. Ctrl+S saves straight back. Powered by notesmith.io.

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Copilot HUD
VSIX · Marketplace Soon

A status-bar HUD for your GitHub Copilot quota — usage bars, remaining requests, reset date and a burn-rate forecast that tells you if you'll run out before the cycle ends. Uses your existing VS Code GitHub sign-in.

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Copilot Auto Model
VSIX · Marketplace Soon

See which model Copilot Chat’s Auto mode actually used, right in the status bar. No setup and no sign-in. It just reads Copilot Chat’s log for the current window.

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Evidence Capture
Claude Code Plugin · Install from GitHub

Screenshot evidence for Claude Code: /evidence:capture stages the clipboard image before anything else can change it, previews it for you, and attaches it to an implementation step with a caption, an optional doc insert, and a hash-checked record.

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As-Built Companion
Claude Code Plugin · Install from GitHub

As-built docs for Claude Code: /as-built-companion:reconcile turns evidence into a reviewed diff across your Markdown docs, refuses ambiguous or stale edits, never repeats a change-log row, redacts secrets first, and reports what evidence is still missing.

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Session Relay
Claude Code Plugin · Install from GitHub

Resume Claude Code work from verified state: /session-relay:checkpoint records where a git worktree stands and what is actually done, and /session-relay:resume compares it with the repo now and asks before anything consequential.

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Deliverable Gate
Claude Code Plugin · Install from GitHub

A publication gate for client work in Claude Code: /deliverable-gate:deliverable-gate shows exactly which files will ship, where they will go and which checks passed, then publishes only the snapshot you approved, to the destination you approved.

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We Build These for Fun

If there's a tool you'd find useful — something that doesn't exist yet, or exists but is annoying to use — reach out. These things get built because someone needed them. And that someone is most likely me.

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