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Grown up graffiti kid. Help an old man using the computer. Co-founder of @fortrabbit.com

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Frank L @franklaemmer.de · 27/09/2026
Where can I run my own model on someone else's GPU? FindHost has a GPU cloud category now: 56 providers from Baseten to Vast. www.findhost.app/categories/g...
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GPU cloud providers — FindHost
Hosting providers that rent out GPUs to run your own model — as a server, as a container billed only while it runs, or behind a managed endpoint.
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Frank L @franklaemmer.de · 27/09/2026
Goodbye Frankfurt.
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René Henrich @renehenrich.norden.social.ap.brid.gy · 26/09/2026
Hitzige Diskussionen auf der #kirbykonf
Gruppe Besucher auf der KirbyKonf, die im Kreis auf der sonnigen Terrasse stehen
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Matthias Ott @matthiasott.com · 25/09/2026
Super important talk by @mrchrisadams.net at #kirbykonf about how to get to a fossil free Internet. 🌱🌍👏
Chris on stage, with a slide that reads „A fossil free internet, Kirby, and carbon.txtChris talking with his computer full of stickers in front of himA slide showing the green energy scores the 4 biggest cloud hyperscalers
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Frank L @franklaemmer.de · 24/09/2026
Toilet paper is empty!
Sign: No more paper towels? Let us know on Slack :)
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Frank L @franklaemmer.de · 24/09/2026
Looking forward to go to Kirby Konf tomorrow. Spot the old guy in the fortrabbit shirt. #kirbykonf #kirbykonf2026
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Frank L @franklaemmer.de · 23/09/2026
Own racks or rented ones? For 161 providers in FindHost we could not find out yet. For 31, the answer is their own. www.findhost.app/metal/owns-m...
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Frank L @franklaemmer.de · 23/09/2026
How long does a hosting contract hold you? 51 of 82 providers in FindHost let you leave within a month. 17 keep billing for a year or longer, almost all of them shared hosts. www.findhost.app/exit/
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Frank L @franklaemmer.de · 18/09/2026
Njalla is named after a Sámi storage hut on a pole. Registers your domain in its own name, usage rights stay yours. Started 2017 by Pirate Bay co-founder Peter Sunde (TorrentFreak). Marked it ♥️ on FindHost, the register we publish at fortrabbit. www.findhost.app/njalla/
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Frank L @franklaemmer.de · 17/09/2026
Njalla is named after a Sámi storage hut on a pole. Registers your domain in its own name, usage rights stay yours. Started 2017 by Pirate Bay co-founder Peter Sunde (TorrentFreak). Marked it ♥️ on FindHost, the register we publish at fortrabbit. www.findhost.app/njalla/
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Frank L @franklaemmer.de · 17/09/2026
Seven git hosts added to FindHost, from Gitea Cloud to Radicle Garden and Tangled. Nine now. They sit beside the register, not in it. (I publish it at fortrabbit.) www.findhost.app/git-hosting/
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Frank L @franklaemmer.de · 16/09/2026
Who owns the hosting groups? FindHost now records the investment firms behind three of them. (I publish it at fortrabbit.) www.findhost.app/holdings/
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Frank L @franklaemmer.de · 16/09/2026
New filter in FindHost: headquarters country. US 45, Germany 16, UK and France 11 each. 25 records unknown. (I publish it at fortrabbit.) www.findhost.app/headquarters/
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Frank L @franklaemmer.de · 15/09/2026
29 hosts in FindHost own their hardware. 13 resell someone else's cloud. For the other 141 the register doesn't know yet, and says so. (I publish it at fortrabbit.) www.findhost.app/metal/
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Frank L @franklaemmer.de · 15/09/2026
Who owns your host? Of 186 providers in FindHost: 59 subsidiaries, 50 independent, 36 VC-backed, 13 publicly listed, 8 private-equity owned. 20 unknown. As of Sep 15. (I publish it at fortrabbit, which is listed too.) www.findhost.app/ownership/
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Frank L @franklaemmer.de · 15/09/2026
The other day I typed google into google. Now I typed claude into claude.
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Frank L @franklaemmer.de · 12/09/2026
Good catch — that was a real hole, not a theoretical one.
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Frank L @franklaemmer.de · 07/09/2026
New EU static hosting filed: www.findhost.app/statichost/
findhost.app
statichost.eu — Static hosting — FindHost
Swedish static site host that clones any git repository, builds it in a Docker image of your choosing and serves the output from European infrastructure without logging visitors.
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Frank L @franklaemmer.de · 07/09/2026
New Git hosting from Europe alternative filed: www.findhost.app/pushin/
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Pushin.eu — Git hosting — FindHost
Git hosting run by one developer in the Netherlands on bare-metal servers in Paris, in invite-only beta with subscriptions to follow.
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Frank L @franklaemmer.de · 03/09/2026
Let me establish the facts rather than reason about it.
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Industry Decarbonization Newsletter @industrydecarbonization.com · 02/09/2026
4 years later⏳⏳⏳⏳ — still no Green Hydrogen💧🔋 In 2022, Linde wanted to start an Electrolyzer at the chemical complex🧪🏭 Leuna (Germany). To this day, the company has not announced a production start. 🔌💡 industrydecarbonization.com/news/safety-... 🧵
industrydecarbonization.com
Safety Issues and an Accident delayed Linde's Green Hydrogen Plant for Years
An Electrolyzer at the chemical site in Leuna, Germany, was supposed to start producing Hydrogen in 2022. Extensive repairs due to safety concerns and an accident in late 2025 caused a multi-year dela...
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Frank L @franklaemmer.de · 31/08/2026
Now using data from Majestic Million to get some signal how large hosting providers are. @fortrabbit.com is tiny. www.findhost.app/reach/#fortr...
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Reach — FindHost
How many networks link to each hosting provider's own domain, from the Majestic Million.
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fortrabbit @fortrabbit.com · 27/08/2026
We are not lazy. We just work on something bigger. So only small updates this month: blog.fortrabbit.com/platform-upd...
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Frank L @franklaemmer.de · 24/08/2026
Improve your German with Udo Jürgens www.youtube.com/watch?v=Vku3...
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Trippe Trappe
YouTube video by Udo Jürgens - Topic
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Frank L @franklaemmer.de · 22/08/2026
You're right, and it kills my option A. —— Aha. And I am so tired.
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Frank L @franklaemmer.de · 14/08/2026
My holiday fun project: FindHost.app - because I am so sick of "best web hosting lists" with affiliate links. Still sanding some edges.
findhost.app
FindHost — a register of web hosting providers
Opinionated field guide to choosing a web host.
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Frank L @franklaemmer.de · 18/07/2026
Nice position. I wonder what that ad for Tipico on spiegel.de costs. I would support a ban on ads for betting, alcohol and sugar.
Tipico add on spiegel.de
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Frank L @franklaemmer.de · 06/07/2026
I can already clearly see you are using AI.
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Frank L @franklaemmer.de · 09/06/2026
Today, I had the honor to create the ticket number 6.000 @fortrabbit.com. That is only for the frontend team and only for the new platform. And yes, I am a crazy micro manager. Linear served us well so far, don't change too much please.
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Frank L @franklaemmer.de · 08/06/2026
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Frank L @franklaemmer.de · 06/06/2026
I use toggle headlines in Markdown-like visual editors (Notion, Linear …) a lot. Shared syntax would be nice. My suggestion: ## Normal H2 ++ Togglable H2 I know it's not a Markdown standard for good reasons. No support in Obsidian.
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Frank L @franklaemmer.de · 05/06/2026
NuxtLabs @ Vercel. Void0 @ Cloudflare. What does that mean for the future?
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Frank L @franklaemmer.de · 03/06/2026
Sorry. I will not learn the meaning of your icons. I want text. I don't want to search for the icon to show me the text. Examples from Better Stack, Who's OOO and some accounting software. #ux
Screenshot from https://www.whoisooo.appScreenshot from BetterStackScreenshot from ADDISON OneClick
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Frank L @franklaemmer.de · 22/05/2026
Ephemeral graffiti.
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Frank L @franklaemmer.de · 20/05/2026
Book title idea: The case against SCREAMING_SNAKE_CASE.
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fortrabbit @fortrabbit.com · 18/05/2026
Adding manpower to a late software project makes it later! —Fred Brooks
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Frank L @franklaemmer.de · 19/05/2026
Kitty Giraudel on AI: You can't spell pain without it. kittygiraudel.com/2026/04/29/y...
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You Cannot Spell “Pain” Without AI
A short heartfelt rant about the current state of AI in our industry.
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Frank L @franklaemmer.de · 08/05/2026
So so. DigitalOcean is all in with AI. No more friendly blue. No more dolphins. No more droplets. All dark.
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fortrabbit @fortrabbit.com · 28/04/2026
Announcing fortrabbit agent skills (early access). Chat to deploy with Claude or Codex. github.com/fortrabbit/a...
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GitHub - fortrabbit/agent-skills: fortrabbit domain knowledge for your agent. Works with Claude, maybe also with Codex.
fortrabbit domain knowledge for your agent. Works with Claude, maybe also with Codex. - fortrabbit/agent-skills
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Frank L @franklaemmer.de · 21/04/2026
Just published my first game: franktheprank.itch.io/marble-maze #indiedev #gamedev
franktheprank.itch.io
Marble Maze by FrankThePrank
Race and edit your own the labyrinths, discover short cuts
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Frank L @franklaemmer.de · 15/04/2026
Hopefully will find the time to publish my first game soon. For people who like marbles and mazes.
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Frank L @franklaemmer.de · 13/04/2026
My linter complaining on Claude Code generated Markdown. It's a file that is not supposed to be read by humans anyway, yet it hurts my eye.
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Frank L @franklaemmer.de · 12/04/2026
True: "The only people that give a fuck about creating static sites would much prefer to use a (free and local) IDE and a terminal." from "The end of 11ty" by @brennanbrown.ca brennan.day/the-end-of-e...
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The End of Eleventy
Build Awesome is a rebrand of 11ty/Eleventy, backed by a successful $40k Kickstarter. But this attempt to monetize static site generators repeats the same mistakes that killed Gatsby and Stackbit—and ...
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Frank L @franklaemmer.de · 25/03/2026
Ready made.
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Frank L @franklaemmer.de · 24/03/2026
I would like to join the movement of humans still using em-dashes — ⇧⌥ -
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Frank L @franklaemmer.de · 13/03/2026
Websites for developer facing services all look the same today. Grid, Isometric perspective.
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Frank L @franklaemmer.de · 11/03/2026
"Noticed you sell to web developers to offer them PHP hosting as a Service." Those annoying AI outreach mails. Here is a collection: blog.fortrabbit.com/cold-outreach
blog.fortrabbit.com
Cold outreach
The following AI cold contact mails have been collected over a few weeks, slightly edited (removed names, line breaks, em-dashes and typographic quotes).
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fortrabbit @fortrabbit.com · 22/02/2026
Artificial Intelligence usually beats natural stupidity.
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Frank L @franklaemmer.de · 21/02/2026
My mom published an academic book in 1978 called "Die Natur der Stadt" (The Nature of the City). I've now finished the digital version to preserve her legacy. github.com/frank-laemme...
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Sean the Seanizer @oldjavaguy.bsky.social · 12/12/2025
Tech job search right now is ... different. In the past, I have successfully interviewed with Amazon, Microsoft, Salesforce, Google, and Ebay. But for the past month, I have hardly even been able to get past a tech screen. Wow.
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