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Project Announcements

Posts introducing new software, hobbyist projects, and other stuff I’m working on.

20 posts
Jun 2009 – Jul 2025

feedfilter: an RSS feed postprocessing tool

One of my newest open-source programs is feedfilter. As the name implies, it takes an RSS feed as input and produces a filtered version of that feed as an output. Filtering is performed on an item-by-item basis. The filtering decision for each item can be based on the item' …

CO2 Monitoring and Alerting with Aranet4 + an4mon

In my home office, I use an Aranet4 CO2 monitor to track carbon dioxide levels. CO2 levels can climb surprisingly quickly when the door is shut while I'm in meetings or calls. I want to CO2 track levels in InfluxDB and integrate the monitor with Home Assistant via …

Announcing the DzSolarized VS Code theme

dzsolarized-vscode is a new Visual Studio Code theme, derived from Solarized, that reflects my personal tastes and preferences. The most outstanding and unusual feature is that the terminal is in "dark mode" even when the rest of the UI is in "light mode." Try it today; …

birdbath.tube

Because birds splashing around are cute, birdbath.tube now exists. Theoretically it's supposed to be possible to follow it via Mastodon, but I haven't gotten that to work yet. Please let me know if you have any ideas. Of course, you can subscribe via RSS. …

flickr-rss

GitHub - cdzombak/flickr-rss: Generate an RSS feed of a Flickr photostream or your Flickr Friends & Family feedGenerate an RSS feed of a Flickr photostream or your Flickr Friends & Family feed - cdzombak/flickr-rssGitHubcdzombak Happy to note I've released a small new program. It generates an …

A simple, reasonably verbose URL shortener.

I wrote ‘hosts-timer’ to help quit my (desktop) Twitter and Facebook habits

Part of the Project Announcements series. It was really easy for me to get into the habit of checking Facebook and Twitter while waiting for my computer to finish something. These sites are, after all, designed to be addicting. There are some apps that are supposed to help solve this, …

Tiny Side Project: Lofi Cafe.app

An Electron wrapper for lofi.cafe and friends.

LAKE.app

Following a recent weekend trip, I wrote a simple little app that plays a recording of waves on Lake Michigan crashing at the shore. It’s around 14~15 minutes long, and it loops perfectly. The app’s “artwork,” such as it is, consists of two photos (shot on iPhone) …

A lightweight service health check tool written in Bash

cdzombak/lightweight-healthcheck is an easy-to-use (and deploy) service health check tool, written entirely in Bash.

Simple programs that make Things.app better

Introducing two small programs which I use to improve my daily life with the personal task manager, Things.

Introducing Runner: a lightweight wrapper for cron jobs

Part of the Project Announcements series. It’s been a while since I blogged anything here, but that doesn’t mean I haven’t done anything in the past couple years! Over the next months, I’m going to try to make some posts about the various projects I’ve …

Fatal Error, Season 2

Season 2 of Fatal Error is back — with weekly episodes and a Patreon campaign.

Code Optional

Part of the Project Announcements series. I realized today I didn’t post anything here announcing Code Optional. I launched this podcast in July with my friends Andrew and Kevin, two of the sharpest developers I know. We aim to discuss all sorts of topics around development, design, and shipping …

ArborWX

Introducing a new hyperlocal weather blog for Ann Arbor: ArborWX.