Hootenanny_
finegrind.bsky.social
Hootenanny_
@finegrind.bsky.social
Tech, Hobby Projects. Devops.
Check out https://cricketmon.io
Woke up to 50 emails this morning from cricket monitoring. Nice to see it picking up the cloud flare outages
November 18, 2025 at 4:29 PM
A really indispensable list for combating spam sign ups is the disposable email blocklist:

github.com/disposable-e...

It's a bit tricky since you want to allow privacy and a lot of people want to sign up to test new tools without the email spam they get after. #buildinpublic #security
August 6, 2025 at 3:39 PM
My East meets West Canadian Maple syrup old fashioned
August 4, 2025 at 11:42 PM
Cricketmonitor is in a good enough place that it's time to start advertising -- Which I am NOT good at. If you want to try it out you can sign up for free at cricketmon.io
I have a bluesky promo for anyone who wants to try and of the paid plans: 67% off Indefinitely use BLUESKY67 . #buildinpublic
August 4, 2025 at 1:09 AM
Server monitoring for cricketmon.io now includes the uptime, kernel version, os, CPU info etc. #buildinpublic #indiehackers
July 8, 2025 at 2:33 AM
Sever monitoring for cricketmon.io is coming along well. Still a few bugs here and there, but overall I'm really happy with how well things are starting to look. You can see in the screenshots the mobile PWA and the base web app. The latest build adds a whole bunch more endpoints #buildinpublic
July 6, 2025 at 5:37 PM
On to one of my favourite parts. I've been experimenting with the addition of local collectors to fetch metrics. Still pretty rough, but I think it's coming along

The idea is you will be able to attach your VMS to a specific alerting template and then auto enroll based on few env vars.
July 3, 2025 at 6:06 AM
Synthetic monitoring is finally finished. It will show the latest screenshot and latest error screenshot if one exists.

As well as capture some unique cases that regular http/s monitoring doesn't grab.

Now just a few annoying bugs and I think it'll be ready to release

#buildinpublic
July 1, 2025 at 7:09 PM
Been working on my monitoring app. It's now finally starting to come together. Very happy with how things are starting to look.

SSL monitoring now alerts you to weak ciphers, expired certs and soon to expire certs.

#buildinpublic
June 29, 2025 at 7:25 PM
Reposted by Hootenanny_
A lot of the internet is down right now
A lot of the internet is down right now | TechCrunch
Several major cloud service providers and apps, from Cloudflare to Spotify, experienced outages on Thursday at around the same time.
techcrunch.com
June 12, 2025 at 7:54 PM
Think my #AI might need a bit more work...

#buildinpublic
June 7, 2025 at 1:41 AM
Reposted by Hootenanny_
Marc Garneau, Canadian astronaut and former federal cabinet minister, has died at age 76.
www.theglobeandmail.com/politics/art...
June 4, 2025 at 10:56 PM
I've added few new features to quete.net

1. You can now use define: and it pulls from opensource dictionaries.
2. It now gives you the "did you mean?" text with results on searches without a value.

And it's way faster.

#indiewebdev #buildinpublic #WebApp #quete.net
June 4, 2025 at 4:04 AM
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Improved my crawler speed concurrency for quete.net moved the DB to new arm based servers and am now indexing more sites per minute than I did in a day when I started.

#webdev #buildinpublic
May 25, 2025 at 3:53 PM
I've started working on my new search engine project.

It's a combination of various projects I've done over the years, including the original natural language search

Now all I need is more indexed sites. But starting with the important things:

#buildinpublic
May 24, 2025 at 11:49 PM
Reposted by Hootenanny_
SleepWell portfolio recedes to 23.75% allocated to the S&P500 or SPY and 76.25% in UUP or cash for the coming week. The recent volatility is stepping the model back.

#etfs, #finance, #investing, #signals, #trading
February 2, 2025 at 4:57 PM
Hello World
January 25, 2025 at 4:49 PM