// builds
Things I have built and kept building. Some of them may be useful to other people, the rest were an excuse to learn something, or just fun to build.
in the workshop
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build 01
liveI wanted a way to plan regular breaks without going 6 months with no day off so I created a calendar for myself but decided to release it. Put in your allowance, click the days you want off, and it works out all the boring stuff. There is no account and no backend, your plan is saved in the browser. Also has a US version.
build 02
liveAn IRC server written in PHP 8.5, mostly because the protocol is old enough to be interesting and PHP is quick enough now to serve it. Tempest handles the application layer, Amp and Revolt do the asynchronous networking. Normal clients can connect over TCP, TLS or websockets, and it holds channels and users in memory. Live at irc.grantbennett.co.uk port 6667 or 6697 for TLS.
build 03
liveA terminal dashboard in Go that keeps tasks in a plain Markdown file and shows them next to the TODO comments in your code and the TODO list in your README. Tasks can belong to a Git branch or a generic category. It comes with todo-scan, which lists code TODO comments on their own so CI can check them (or you can scan different directories).
build 04
liveA read only IMAP client in Go that prints JSON or TOON. I wanted to let an LLM go rummaging through a mailbox without giving it any way to delete, move, or even mark a message as read, so bodies are fetched with PEEK. Searching happens on the server, which means it copes with a mailbox that has years of mail in it. An example of guiding Claude to write to my spec.
build 05
buildingA self hosted dashboard for coding stats. It speaks the same protocol as wakatime-cli, so the editor plugins you already have can point at it instead and the data stays on your own hardware. A work in progress.