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Hi, I'm Michal β€” aka TechGuyWithABeard πŸ‘‹

Retired IT pro β€’ Full-stack developer β€’ Privacy advocate β€’ Homelab & Cloudflare builder β€’ Shipping tools people actually use

Website MyKK De-Google IP Cow X (Twitter) Follow GitHub Followers

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πŸš€ What I'm building

  • MyKK Dashboard β€” A single-file browser start page with 30+ widgets (weather, stocks, RSS, calendar, bookmarks, and more). Vanilla JS, no frameworks. Pro tier via Chrome Extension + Stripe subscriptions. Cloud sync with Firebase. Repos: mykk.us-dashboard Β· mykk.us

  • De-Google.US β€” Privacy education site promoting alternatives to Google services. Side-by-side comparisons, migration guides, and product recommendations. Built with Jekyll + Cloudflare Pages. Repo: degoog.us

  • IP Cow β€” Free IP lookup tools (IPv4/IPv6, CLI tools, domain parking). A small ecosystem of five repos powering the service. Repos: ipcow Β· ipcow-checkip Β· ipcow-checkipv6

  • Unbound Homelab β€” Production-ready redundant DNS infrastructure for home labs. DNSSEC, health monitoring, automated config management on Raspberry Pi.

🧰 Toolbox

Languages JavaScript Python Bash TypeScript HTML5 CSS3 Ruby

Platforms & Infrastructure Cloudflare Firebase Docker Raspberry Pi GitHub Actions

Services & APIs Stripe Proton Chrome Web Store

Tools Jekyll Obsidian Claude Code

🧩 More projects

  • Welcome Message β€” Beautiful Linux MOTD with fastfetch, weather, and system metrics. Multi-distro, multi-shell, idempotent installer.

  • Email-to-Discord Worker β€” Cloudflare Worker that routes inbound emails to Discord channels.

  • Frequency Tone Generator β€” Minimal client-side tone generator for precise frequencies.

  • GSA Manager β€” Club/association management app with membership tracking, inventory, and payment processing.

  • IMDb Movie File Fixer β€” Auto-rename movies, fix grammar, check IMDb, handle duplicates.

See more at Pinned Repositories below.

🌐 Sites I maintain

Site What it is
michalferber.me Personal blog β€” tech, tinkering, and life
start.mykk.us MyKK Dashboard β€” live demo
mykk.us MyKK marketing site
de-google.us Privacy alternatives to Google
ipcow.com Free IP lookup tools
ferber.me Family history site
grandfathershoney.com Beekeeping heritage
elsanjose.com El San Jose Mexican Restaurant, Lake City SC
kj4dia.me Ham radio β€” KJ4DIA

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🀝 Connect

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.

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  1. michalferber.dev michalferber.dev Public

    A central place for all my technical documentation and project logs.

    HTML

  2. mykk.us-dashboard mykk.us-dashboard Public

    The starting place for the web browser experience.

    HTML

  3. welcome-message welcome-message Public

    Beautiful Linux welcome message with fastfetch, weather, system metrics & multi-language support. Configurable, cached, supports 5+ distros. Bash & ZSH compatible.

    Shell

  4. ipcow ipcow Public

    What is my IP? Free IP tools. Get your current public IP address

    JavaScript