Building the things that nobody is asking for
I'm Olaf Alders. I write software for the web. I'm a White Camel Award winner. Currently building My Mind is Racing — every run, swim, ride and race — all in one calendar.
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Hosting iCal via GitHub Gists
I’ve been using Claude to help organize my swim/bike/run schedule. I want Claude to be able to update the iCal file and I want it hosted somewhere that I don’t need to think too much about. It turns out that GitHub gists are handy for this. If I alter the plan, Claude updates it and the changes sync to my …
tmux plugins galore
I’m amazed at how many people are putting out new tmux plugins. One part of me wants to try out some interesting plugins, but another part of me is wary of adding a lot of stuff to my dev environment that I cannot guarantee does not currently or won’t in future contain some kind of exploit. You know when …
Latte Art for Nerds
I stumbled across this delightful collection of latte art by Yuko Honda on Flickr. There’s not really a need to crank out LLM-generated weird images. I mean, I’ve done my share of that, but right now I’m enjoying things created by humans. Here are a few OSS highlights from the #geeklatte album.
Debugging HTTP::Tiny Calls Deep Inside Your Stack
LWP::ConsoleLogger is one of the little libraries that I am most proud of. It lets you debug LWP and Mojo UserAgents you don’t even know about, and now we also have support for HTTP::Tiny.
How I Spent My Perl Toolchain Summit v2026 (Vienna)
The Perl Toolchain Summit is an annual event, held in Europe, where work on improving the Perl toolchain takes place. In 2026 we met in Vienna, Austria. It was my first trip to the city and my 11th PTS in total.
No Clothing? No Problem
Clothing-optional runs are niche events, but if you enjoy running and you’re also the kind of person who gets stressed trying to choose an outfit, these might be just what you’re looking for. And with names like “Bare Buns”, “White Tail” and “Chilly Cheeks”, what’s …