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Daniel Brendel
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Senior Indie Software Developer and Project Founder

GitHub: https://github.com/danielbrendel
Portfolio: https://www.danielbrendel.com/
Discord: https://discord.gg/kc6xGmjzVS

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💚 APPRECIATION TIME 💚

More than 1250 stars and 700K docker image downloads on GitHub! 🥰

A massive thanks to everyone supporting HortusFox. 🚀🌿🦊

#IndieDev #SelfHosted #Selfhosting #OpenSource #FOSS #Plants #Gardening #Botany #Horticulture #WebDev #PHP
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Wishing everyone a beautiful wednesday. ☕💚🤗

What are your plans for today?

⬇️ Post into the comments ⬇️

#indiedev #softwaredeveloper #programmer #coder #mentalhealth #solopreneur #founder #promo #promosky #selfie
November 12, 2025 at 1:04 PM
danielbrendel.com
💚 APPRECIATION TIME 💚

More than 1250 stars and 700K docker image downloads on GitHub! 🥰

A massive thanks to everyone supporting HortusFox. 🚀🌿🦊

#IndieDev #SelfHosted #Selfhosting #OpenSource #FOSS #Plants #Gardening #Botany #Horticulture #WebDev #PHP
November 11, 2025 at 9:43 PM
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HortusFox and other projects are built using my own custom #PHP #framework. 🧩

The backstory is quite odd, but a fun read:
➡️ www.danielbrendel.com/blog/31-an-o...

Beastmode? More like "Gyro Gearloose"-mode. 😅

Check it out:
➡️ www.asatru-php.com

#webdev #webframework #phpframework #engineering
November 8, 2025 at 7:45 PM
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🕹️ Hiii talented #gamedevs! I hope everyone is having a nice Saturday 💜

Here's a #screenshotsaturday post!

Reply to this post updates for your #games (any game links, photos, videos etc) 🎮

💜 like
🗨️ comment
🔄 repost!

#indiegame #saturdayscreenshot #gaming #indiedev #gamedevelopment
a happy saturday greeting card with a cartoon animal
ALT: a happy saturday greeting card with a cartoon animal
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November 8, 2025 at 2:39 PM
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✍🏻 My Ko-Fi link; I share blogs of some games I have made music for 🎶

ko-fi.com/nicolemariet

Reply to this post to share your Ko-Fi links! 😎

#kofi #musicproducer #composer #blogs
Buy Nicole Marie T a Coffee
Become a supporter of Nicole Marie T today!
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November 8, 2025 at 2:12 PM
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Please tell me you recall all these progams I've just smashed a bit. 😂

New backgrounds for Casual Desktop Game available:
➡️ www.casual-desktop-game.com/backgrounds

#RetroComputing #RetroGame #RetroGaming #Vintage #Nostalgia #Retro #00s #2000s #Millenial #GameDev #IndieDev #ScreenshotSaturday
November 7, 2025 at 5:50 PM
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Happy #friday 🌈

How are you going to spend the weekend?

💻 Development & Coding?
🫟 Drawing/Painting/Illustration?
🎼 Music composition?
🌳 Hiking?
☕ Coffee, tea & chill?

➡️ Post your plans in the comments.

#weekend #programming #artist #composer #hiking #coffee #gamedev #indiedev #promo #promosky
November 7, 2025 at 11:43 AM
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Hello #PortfolioDay 👋

I'm Daniel Brendel, a senior indie #SoftwareDeveloper and creator of various projects. I'm the creator of HortusFox, a self-hosted #FOSS system for #Houseplants care and #Gardening as well as many other projects. 💚

➡️ See my portfolio
www.danielbrendel.com

#Promosky #Promo
HortusFox: The open-source, collaborative management, tracking and journaling app for plant lovers and gardeners. Casual Desktop Game is a fan remake of the ancient Desktop Destroyer game, featuring community content. AquaShell is a scripting and automation shell for Windows that can compete with AutoHotkey or AutoIt. The Asatru PHP framework is a PHP web-framework used in a number of my web-based projects.
November 5, 2025 at 9:59 PM
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WINTER IS COMING. ❄️

Grab your hot beverage, a comfy blanket, and check out the winter theme for your HortusFox workspace. 💚

➡️ Get themes here:
www.hortusfox.com/themes

#selfhosted #selfhosting #foss #opensource #plants #gardening #winter #xmas #botany #horticulture #theme
November 5, 2025 at 7:46 PM
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The Virtual Pet Jam 2025 has ended! 🕹️

The jam winner is:
> Game: Virtual Pet Prototype
> Author: Shiro
> Link: itch.io/jam/virtual-...

➡️ All results:
itch.io/jam/virtual-...

#gamedev #gamejam #gamedevelopment #virtualpet #tamagotchi #indiedev #retrogaming #retrojam
Virtual Pet Prototype by Shiro for Virtual Pet Jam 2025
Play in your browser
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November 4, 2025 at 11:15 PM
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I made a battlefield blueprint for Casual Desktop Game. 😆

With the up-coming blueprint feature, you'll be able to create cool scenes and share them with others. 👀

➡️ Game website:
www.casual-desktop-game.com

#IndieDev #GameDev #GameDevelopment #RetroGame #RetroGaming #DesktopDestroyer #Blueprint
November 4, 2025 at 1:25 PM
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We now have self-assigning roles for my #discord server. 💚

If you want to support me and my work, or just want to have casual chats with cool people, feel free to join. We have over 150 members already!

discord.gg/kc6xGmjzVS

#gamedev #indiedev #webdev #programmer #community #diversity
November 3, 2025 at 3:16 PM
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Sneak peek of the upcoming update for Casual Desktop Game. 😃

The two new fireworks tools along with the already existing fireworks tool in action. 🎆

➡️ More info:
store.steampowered.com/news/app/100...

#gamedev #indiedev #gamedevelopment #milestone #desktopdestroyer #retrogame #retrogaming
November 2, 2025 at 11:10 PM
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I've been pretty busy today. I've decided to push another update for Casual Desktop Game, featuring blueprints (and more).

See more here:
store.steampowered.com/news/app/100...

#gamedev #indiedev #gamedevelopment #indiegame #desktopdestroyer #retrogame #retrogaming #cpp #cplusplus #angelscript
Casual Desktop Game - New update in the making - Steam News
Hey guys, wow, it's been a while since the last game update. Fortunately, I've got great news for you: A new update is in the making! The next update will contain a feature which will enable a new lev...
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November 2, 2025 at 1:32 AM
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Self-Host Weekly (2025-10-31)

Dissecting the #GitHub #Octoverse report, #software updates and launches, a spotlight on #HATimeMachine, and more in this week's #selfhosted recap!

selfh.st/weekly/2025-...

#selfhost #selfhosting #opensource #foss #privacy #security #development #homelab #smarthome
Self-Host Weekly (31 October 2025)
Self-hosted news, updates, launches, and content for the week ending Friday, October 31, 2025
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October 31, 2025 at 12:05 PM
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Got a #bluescreen? Just nuke it. ☢️

➡️ Play here:
store.steampowered.com/app/1001860/...

#GameDev #GameDevelopment #IndieDev #DesktopDestroyer #RetroGame #RetroGaming #SteamGame #FreeGame #PixelArt #IndieGame
October 30, 2025 at 11:31 PM
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Did you know you can use the underlying script engine for AquaShell in your own C++ projects?

➡️ Check out dnyScriptInterpreter
github.com/danielbrende...

#cpp #cplusplus #foss #opensource #programming #coding #scripting #programminglanguage #scriptlanguage
GitHub - danielbrendel/dnyScriptInterpreter: A script interpreter for dnyScript. dnyScript is useful as a configuration and scripting engine used in C++ projects
A script interpreter for dnyScript. dnyScript is useful as a configuration and scripting engine used in C++ projects - danielbrendel/dnyScriptInterpreter
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October 30, 2025 at 4:39 PM
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🚀 HortusFox version 5.4 released!

View changelog here:
github.com/danielbrende...

This release fixes an incident that required immediate action.

💚 Thank you for flying with HortusFox

#foss #opensource #php #webdev #selfhosted #selfhosting #plants #gardening #botany #horticulture #hotfix
Release v5.4 · danielbrendel/hortusfox-web
Version 5.4 of HortusFox This is a hotfix which resolves issue #467
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October 30, 2025 at 2:37 PM
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The german CreativeCommons web radio theradio.cc has mentioned HortusFox in one of their episodes. 😀💚

theradio.cc/blog/2025/08...

#selfhosted #radio #creativecommons #foss #opensource #webradio #germany
TheRadio.CC
Euer Creative Commons Radio
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October 29, 2025 at 11:59 AM
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HortusFox v5.3 blog post published! 🚀

Read my latest blog post about the recent milestone of HortusFox.

www.danielbrendel.com/blog/49-hort...

#foss #opensource #selfhosted #selfhosting #webdev #php #milestone #indiedev #plants #plantparents #gardening #botany #horticulture
HortusFox v5.3 published - Empower your plant parenting 🚀 | Daniel Brendel | Blog
HortusFox v5.3 released The latest version 5.3 covers many i...
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October 26, 2025 at 1:17 PM
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Thank you @Husky17 for sponsoring me on @github. You can join them at my sponsors profile: github.com/sponsors/dan...
Sponsor @danielbrendel on GitHub Sponsors
I am a senior indie software developer and project founder. I am the founder, lead developer and project maintainer of HortusFox as well as other projects.
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October 25, 2025 at 5:15 PM
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HortusFox v5.3 has just been published! 🚀

I'm really excited to share the latest release with y'all! 💚

View more:
github.com/danielbrende...

Homepage:
www.hortusfox.com

#foss #selfhosted #opensource #selfhosting #php #webdev #plants #botany #gardening #houseplants #indoorplants #outdoorplants
Release v5.3 · danielbrendel/hortusfox-web
Version 5.3 of HortusFox Changelog Hours, days, weeks, months and years for recurring tasks (#423) New language: hungarian (#428) Integrate SMTP Auth flag (#424) Consolidate annual, perennial and ...
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October 25, 2025 at 1:59 PM
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Asatru PHP v1.5 was just published! 🚀

Also there is now an official homepage of the #phpframework:

www.asatru-php.com

#webdev #php #framework #webframework #release
Asatru PHP - Rapid web application development
Asatru PHP is an MVC web framework for rapid application development
www.asatru-php.com
October 23, 2025 at 8:34 PM
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Updated my monthly support goal on #kofi

www.danielbrendel.com/blog/46-mont...
Monthly financial support goal ✨ | Daniel Brendel | Blog
Monthly goal set 📊 I've decided to set a monthly support ...
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October 23, 2025 at 4:44 PM
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The NPD Awareness #GameJam has finished. Big thanks to everyone who contributed in raising awareness for #NarcissisticPersonalityDisorder 💚

#NPD is a #mentaldisorder that is heavily stigmatized due to a significant educational gap. That's why we need more #education, #compassion and #inclusion.
October 23, 2025 at 3:23 PM