Dan Brown

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Hello! I'm Dan, a UK based full stack web developer with a love of open source software. Most of my free time is spent working on BookStack, playing video-games or getting distracted by one of many hobbies like 3d printing.

I primarily develop in PHP using Laravel, with VueJS being my front-end framework of choice, but I also dabble in Go, NodeJS, TypeScript and Android development.

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Latest Blog Posts
Date Post
2025-09-20 Linux Label Printing with the Phomemo D30
2025-09-18 Reporting to the CMA: Google Android Developer Verification
2025-09-16 OPNsense & Dnsmasq: Responding with specific DNS servers
2025-08-20 An Impromptu Introduction to ZFS Drive Replacement at 1am
2025-07-02 Experience with UK Medical Cannabis for Ankylosing Spondylitis
2025-04-25 Copyright Takedown for Linking to the "State of Open Source" Report
2025-04-04 No, Gumroad Did Not Become Open Source Today
2025-03-24 Scripting Monitors (KDE on Fedora)
2025-01-27 Amber flags in Open Source & Self-Hosted Projects
2025-01-07 LLMs are Directing Open Source Licensing
2024-12-31 Games Played in 2024
2024-10-24 Beware of Poison in the Source
2024-10-02 Common Misconceptions of the AGPL
2024-07-29 Adapting GitHub action PHPUnit tests for Codeberg/Forgejo
2024-07-02 Lessons from the Allotment
2024-06-04 Futo, Please don't attempt to create your own Open Source Definition
2024-03-05 Material You (Dynamic/Adaptive) Colors in Legacy Android Apps
2024-01-19 Scripting Monitors (Gnome & Wayland on Fedora)
2024-01-08 Retaining a Greenhouse Roof with 3d Printing
2023-12-24 Games Played in 2023
2023-12-12 Lessons From Growing Food Indoors
2023-11-15 Why the Distinction Between "Open Source" and "Source Available" is Important
2023-08-31 Raspberry Pi Camera Module 3 Timelapse
2023-08-03 Removing the Rear Seats on a Volvo C30
2023-07-27 Reporting Google's WEI to the CMA
2023-07-24 Controlling Default GRUB Boot Option via USB
2023-07-10 Creating a Video Home for FOSS Projects
2023-07-07 Paying for Search
2023-04-21 My Favourite Static Site Deploy Method
2023-04-04 PhpStorm (JetBrains IDE) 2023 Linux Scaling

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Latest Projects

BookStack

An easy-to-use and free platform for sharing documentation.

Laravel MySQL TypeScript PHP

Is it really FOSS?

Evaluating the FOSS status of projects.

Astro Licensing

RSS

A simple twitter-feed-style RSS aggregator.

Laravel SQLite Tailwind PHP Vue.js

Mailbag

A system for managing batch sends to subscriber lists.

Laravel SQLite Tailwind PHP

Wirestat

A basic HTTP/JSON based monitoring system

Golang JSON Linux

Haste

HTML Awesomely Simple Templating Engine.

Golang HTML CSS

Viewr

An image-focused subreddit browser written in VueJS.

Vue.js CSS Gulp JS

Thermocouples

An app for viewing and calculating thermocouple info.

Android Java Material Design

Retherm

An app to convert between RTD resistance and temperature.

Android Java Thermal Calculation