Solo dev • Founder • 31+ years in IT • Privacy advocate • Homelab & Cloudflare builder • Shipping small, single-file, privacy-first tools
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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,
.emlemail, 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
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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.
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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 (
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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
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tgwab-web — pnpm + Astro 5 monorepo powering the identity fleet (hub, blog, dev portfolio, family, ham radio) from one shared design system (
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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
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de-google.us — a plain-English guide to limiting Big Tech without blowing up your life. Astro 5 + Tailwind 4 + Pagefind.
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tomatick — 🍅 macOS menu-bar timer, stopwatch, alarm & pomodoro with timestamped history (rumps + PyObjC).
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cheatsheets — clean, privacy-first developer cheatsheets as web, PDF & Markdown.
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github-tree-browser — single-file, client-only GitHub repo tree browser for GitHub Pages.
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default-web-pages — a recreation archive of web-server default pages: Microsoft IIS (1995–2022) plus nginx, Apache, Caddy & friends.
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Welcome Message — beautiful Linux MOTD with fastfetch, weather, and system metrics. Multi-distro, multi-shell, idempotent installer.
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Scripts — practical Bash scripts and helpers across Linux systems, Raspberry Pi devices, and self-hosted environments.
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Unbound Homelab — production-ready redundant DNS infrastructure for home labs. DNSSEC, health monitoring, automated config management on Raspberry Pi.
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Email-to-Discord Worker — Cloudflare Worker that routes inbound emails to Discord channels with HTML→Markdown conversion.
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GSA Manager — club/association management app with membership tracking, inventory, and payment processing. Active since 2007.
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IMDb Movie File Fixer — auto-rename movies, fix grammar, check IMDb, handle duplicates.
See more at Pinned Repositories below.
Products & tools
| Site | What it is |
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| techguywithabeard.com | TGWAB hub — landing, blog, portfolio (Astro / Pagefind) |
| michalferber.me | Personal blog — building, operating, shipping projects |
| michalferber.dev | Developer portfolio — extensions, products, certs |
| start.mykk.us | MyKK Dashboard — live demo |
| favorites.mykk.us | MyKK Favorites — speed-dial on Cloudflare Workers |
| file-viewer.us | File Viewer family hub — 13 offline, single-file viewers |
| textwizard.us | Browser-local text & code tools |
| resizewizard.app | ResizeWizard — Chrome extension |
| copywizard.us | CopyWizard — smart form mapper extension |
| uploadwizard.app | UploadWizard — white-label client file uploads |
| ipcow.com | Free IP, DNS & email diagnostics — since 2005 |
| de-google.us | Plain-English guide to limiting Big Tech |
| tomatick.us | Tomatick — macOS menu-bar pomodoro |
| fixdns.net / brokedns.com | DNS repair / migration consulting |
Family, hobby & client sites
| Site | What it is |
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| ferber.me | Family history site |
| kj4dia.me | Amateur radio — KJ4DIA |
| grandfathershoney.com | Beekeeping heritage |
| elsanjose.com | El San Jose Mexican Restaurant, Lake City SC |
| bethhudsonink.com | Beth Hudson Ink — editing services |
| penpaigebooks.com | Penelope Paige — author links page |
- Hub: techguywithabeard.com
- Blog: michalferber.me
- Dev portfolio: michalferber.dev
- Buy Me a Coffee: buymeacoffee.com/techguywithabeard
I build small, well-documented tools that are easy to fork and run. If something here helps you, feel free to fork, file issues, or say hi.
